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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!
A question to both of you. What is THE most respected German media outlet in the World at the moment?
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There ain't no such thing.
I quote Der Spiegel very often only for one reason: it is the only major heavyweight amongst the German newspapers that maintains a huge
English-written section.
I daily skim over the headlines of these:
- FOCUS (balacning in the middle between left and right, but also being quite populistic)
- FAZ (conservative, PC mainstream)
- Spiegel (both German and international edition) (sometimes quite conservative, sometimes left-leaning)
- Der Tagespiegel (conservative, but cheesy covering of Berlin city issues)
- Die Welt (sometimes left, sometimes more right, sometimes good, sometimes dilletantic, sometimes opportunistic)
- IP Global (published by the German Council for Foreign Relations)
and rarely: - Die Zeit (covering the ground from centre to slight left, but often giving in-depth essays)
Bad jobs of just paste© you would get from -Frankfurter Rundschau, -erliner Morgenpost, and many others.
Bad and ideologicially heavily biased (extreme left) are -Die Tageszeitung (TAZ) and the -Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
Deutsche Welle has had a solid reputation (the German BBC World Service, so to speak)in the past, but I just never used it, so I cannot really comment.
Nice also is this: -Die Achse des Guten. Plenty of political queer-thinking and subversive commenting against political correctness. My much liked Henryk Broder is a major contributor and co-founder there.
FAZ and Die Zeit are imagined to be the traditional papers for the conservative and business people. Sueddeutsche is associated with being the traditional paper of the left-leaning academic soft sciences: teachers, philosophers, pedagogues, social scientists, psychologists etc.
Unfortunately, the most influential and indeed policy-making paper is Bild. It is not just reporting, but it is manipulating by inention. Alskmostr all mpoliticians cannot afford to ignore it. It'S also the biggest daily paper in all Europe, with Der Spiegel being the biggest weekly magazine.
One of the worst papers there is, at the same time is the biggest and most powerful. That says something about our societies, and our people.