thresh Why so many journalists particularly hard one for the SPD? Jürgen Busche / TIME 13/08/2009
There is in this campaign, an anti-democratic social affect. It is reflected most strikingly in the mocking pity, which opposes the proposed SPD chancellor candidate, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, mainly from formerly friendly page. With a person has little to do. More follows the disparaging criticism here on the urgent need to make rejection of concrete. Because of the massive anti-Socialists mood does not correspond to any sort of sympathy for the Union parties. The FDP has never been so much patronage party this year as the global economic crisis. And the surveys held present popularity of Chancellor Angela Merkel hovers above it all, as there was no campaigning. Each participant
talkative rounds in German pubs can confirm these findings. There are even fewer journalists than politicians. They certainly are not in such cases like abused media alone, the SPD be damaged by hail in the summer, although the conformism especially the journalists on this occasion reveal it makes the Social hard to fight back against injustice in a brief time. The conformity is not new. He met Helmut Kohl after his election defeat in 1976, he accompanied Gerhard Schroeder in his campaign against the 'professor from Heidelberg ", that of the CDU as finance minister Paul Kirchhof provided. Again, the enthusiasm was yelling at market places to start. If you say today that the union leaders had not sufficiently defended her husband, one must add that the so-called published opinion, a bad-attacked not counsel, who had previously been at least the Federal Constitutional Court. Rudolf Augstein's word, when an avalanche crashing down on a man, he was not happy to be part of the avalanche, but likes to quote, but almost never followed. As it currently much of the success story of the Federal Republic, tells a sad chapter should be devoted to the conformity in the German press. However, we examine the reasons for the anti-SPD-emotion, there are certainly several of them, but also including the special, that there is a closer relationship between the SPD and many journalists as between the Union and the luminaries of this article. It has a long tradition, and for much of that time are neither socialists nor journalists need to be ashamed of. Of the three Social Democratic chancellors was the first Willy Brandt, Journalist at the beginning of his professional career, and second, Helmut Schmidt, was on the political career - both with success.
There are journalists in the German-Semitism "a disposition to demonstrate progressive," even the philosopher Hermann Lübbe said that was the time of the student movement as a Social Democrat Secretary of State in Dusseldorf. He took possession of the turn of 1968. The journalists, who were then at the beginning of their careers going, soon to retire. And many of the journalists who today about the huge range of possibilities grout of their profession, have been shaped by them, which - in the known superiority of the 68 - not be addressed without suffering be. And now that the obvious generation project of the "march through the institutions" to a close, disappointed love determines the settlement with the SPD.
Now it is no longer about the stronghold of the Union Federal Republic of - "of the CDU state," it said 1968 - thanks to Brandt, Schmidt and Schroeder, was thanks to the SPD-ministers in the grand coalition has become more socially democratic.
What matters now is that the once coined by Herbert Wehner, Willy Brandt and Fritz Erler SPD thanks to Schröder, Steinmeier Clement and the CDU has become increasingly similar - a CDU, which for decades demonized by left-liberal journalists had been. become as a dream of red-green reality was, it was a Social Democratic chancellor, the German soldiers to wage war across the border, sent it was his super-minister, who went with the Hartz IV reforms the workers to the meager assets, it was the current chancellor candidate who refused to receive a German citizen in Germany, who was sitting innocently in Guantanamo. All this and more isolated in the eleven years of social democratic participation in government in Berlin declared by most journalists, if not defended with conviction. But in sum, it is eventually became too much.
What the press - to use the old word to use again - Demonstrates currently gloating, is belated independence. She takes revenge on the SPD not only disappointed love. She takes revenge, bitter yet, for several of my own failure. What's next, you can see after the election.
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