I have spent these recent days, in which the unsolved Israel Palestine problem exploded again, in Germany. I am more than shocked by how one-sided German media have reported this “round”. What you got in most mainstream German newspapers and on German TV is not serious journalism.
It is, of course, much more fun for a foreign reporter to live in Tel-Aviv than in Gaza. In that case, they need to find reporters who are willing to do this work. We should not complain about people turning to alternative sources of information, if we won’t deliver the full picture.
Unserved by German media, many Germans from Muslim countries understandably turn to media in their countries of origin. They might be more likely, even eager, to get the news from the German media, if that media was seen to be even-handed. Germany should think about – that would also be also in the interest of the rest of society.
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