2024-07-04 09:47:41
How the state promotes state journalism
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A new German media player? Claudia Roth (Green)
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Distance from the state is the most important feature of free press. So it should be about how the federal government intervened in journalism recently by funding a dangerous project. Interests are often the media that communicate in the interests of the government.
AThe Enlightenment is “a serious process that the bourgeoisie begins against the state”: The definition of the razor taken by the historian Reinhart Koselleck, formulated in “On and Crisis” in 1954, seems strange for our present, where “subversion” is considered a constitutional crime. And yet distance from the state, even opposition to the state, was a central characteristic of the first newspaper. With these leading media of the Enlightenment, read in coffee houses and salons, the highly controversial “bourgeois public” appeared around 1800, the “structural change” which Jürgen Habermas described in 1962.
Are we experiencing a new structural change in public space? In any case, a liberal, state-remote and critical media landscape is no longer as self-evident as it once seemed in liberal democracies. On the one hand, this is because media consumption and business models are changing and all media companies are struggling with difficult economic conditions. On the other hand, these conditions, which bring with them the effect but also the ability to repair themselves, do not apply equally to everyone. Despite the many crises of our time, public broadcasting – whose distance from the state is established on paper, but in practice is often replaced by perceived proximity to the government – can manage record revenues of over nine billion euros and is facing the next increase. in the interventions.
“Feindliche Movement Report”
As if that wasn’t enough of a competitive silence, the government is also using its own shadow media empire. Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth played here, as did FDP member of the Bundestag Wolfgang Kubicki in “Bild” appears, a dubious role. As Kubicki found out when asked, he supported the news agency dpa with 240,536 euros. These work, as it is called, “a training program for media professionals on the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence”. With project-related funding, Roth apparently wants to avoid the obvious suspicion that his donations threaten the freedom of the press: “The freedom of the press guaranteed in Article 5 of the Basic Law is protected in public,” said a female spokeswoman, “none at all. Journalist content is money.”
But this argument is clear. Because state funding is primarily for media outlets that are trusted to communicate with government lines – and mostly target government critics and their arguments. So the journalist team agreed “New German media makers” The Ministry of Culture will receive funding of 200,000 euros in 2022. Your work? Political correctness Control of border issues on open policy.
The “media makers” offer a documentary on the ongoing immigration debate on their website. Under the title “False information is harming our immigration society” he worked on “immigration myths” in “10 short statements” – then took the statement as an example. “Immigrants are a ‘security risk'” before: “This reference assumes that immigrants *,” wrote the authors, as if there were no clear signs that they “commit crimes more often than people without a history of immigration” – and then asked, in the argument of it borders on madness: “This history runs its course into the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory of the ‘great exchange’.”
Also those Research group “Correctiv” supported by the Ministry of Culture with 200.000 euros – and also received, as the “Frankfurter Allgemeine” Reports, together with the Ruhr University of Bochum and the Technical University of Dortmund, attracted 1.33 million euros from the Federal Ministry of Education to run a project called “noFake”, which wants to use artificial intelligence to counter “conspiracy beliefs and information” . One mentions why Project description “Indication of the spread as part of the spread of the coronavirus” – which of course does not mean the numerous statements made by government politicians that have been proven to be false.
After all, a research group that crossed the line from critical journalism to activism in several places in its report on the “secret meeting” of the AfD-affiliated regions in Potsdam should now use government money to the devices that draw the red line. between truth and lies in digital space? And who then perhaps even judges the reports of true liberal colleagues?
These state interventions in the free media landscape, which appear harmless in the form of project funding, should worry anyone who believes in the educational mission of journalism.
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