Isn't Bild a right wing newspaper? Its owned by Axel Springer which recently bought the right wing paper The Telegraph in tbe UK. Pretty sure their plan is to push The Telegraph in the USA as a right wing version of The Guardian or try an match The Daily Mail's online success.
I dont think its a surprise a right wing newspaper editor is spouting right wing talking points. Its a trash paper for old german biggots, just like The Telegraph is a trash paper for old british biggots.
From my experience with Germans on Lemmy BILD is pretty representative of them. Whenever you see a wildly racist or Islamophobic on Lemmy comment there's a 90% chance the author is German. Only there is it so normalized that they don't see anything wrong with it. Even among their "left wing".
You are right that Islamophobia is quite common in Germany. And when you put „left wing“ in quotes you seem to acknowledge that there are different understandings of left in Germany as there are in other countries. And it depends on which one you look at, how much of a problem that is in the specific group.
BILD being the best selling „newspaper“ mostly depends on two things:
a) it’s one of the few publications sold nationwide.
b) It’s not really a newspaper. It is and always has been a right wing outlet spewing bigotry, hatred and misinformation.
And that is something that sadly sells well throughout all the remaining liberal democracies.
And it’s festering in Germany as well, our local right wing extremists currently reaching close to 30% in polls. But that still leaves 70% who are not fully gone yet. And I hope you‘ll meet more of them in the future.
You are right that Islamophobia is quite common in Germany.
And Romaphobia, Sintiphobia, and so on. After all you're Europeans. Do you think those free weapons to Ukraine will bring peace to the world? Africans and Iranians are already suffering the consequences.
For the USA it's WSJ then NYT and only then New York Post. The top two are right wing rags by their own account but at least they use Liberalism as its cover and don't call Mamdani a Muzlamic tourist
The resistance fighting against the nazis and hiding jews from death camps were also considered extremists and terrorists. Germany doesn't change when it comes to genocide.
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BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 29d
Isn't Bild a right wing newspaper? Its owned by Axel Springer which recently bought the right wing paper The Telegraph in tbe UK. Pretty sure their plan is to push The Telegraph in the USA as a right wing version of The Guardian or try an match The Daily Mail's online success.
I dont think its a surprise a right wing newspaper editor is spouting right wing talking points. Its a trash paper for old german biggots, just like The Telegraph is a trash paper for old british biggots.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 30 pts · 29d
It's a right wing rag but at the same time the best sold "news"paper in Germany. Which says more about Germany than the paper.
kunaltyagi@programming.dev · 14 pts · 29d
Most Germans I know don't read papers. However, that doesn't absolve a significant portion of them on being too damn comfortable with AfD
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 29d
From my experience with Germans on Lemmy BILD is pretty representative of them. Whenever you see a wildly racist or Islamophobic on Lemmy comment there's a 90% chance the author is German. Only there is it so normalized that they don't see anything wrong with it. Even among their "left wing".
NochMehrG@feddit.org · 3 pts · 29d
You are right that Islamophobia is quite common in Germany. And when you put „left wing“ in quotes you seem to acknowledge that there are different understandings of left in Germany as there are in other countries. And it depends on which one you look at, how much of a problem that is in the specific group. BILD being the best selling „newspaper“ mostly depends on two things: a) it’s one of the few publications sold nationwide. b) It’s not really a newspaper. It is and always has been a right wing outlet spewing bigotry, hatred and misinformation. And that is something that sadly sells well throughout all the remaining liberal democracies. And it’s festering in Germany as well, our local right wing extremists currently reaching close to 30% in polls. But that still leaves 70% who are not fully gone yet. And I hope you‘ll meet more of them in the future.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 29d
Fun fact this community exists because I was banned from the Nazi one on Feddit.org
SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 28d
And Romaphobia, Sintiphobia, and so on. After all you're Europeans. Do you think those free weapons to Ukraine will bring peace to the world? Africans and Iranians are already suffering the consequences.
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 29d
Bild might be nominally the best selling newspaper, but they're a rag similar to the sun in both quality and reputation.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 29d
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 29d
Show me a country in which tabloids don't sell well. It sucks, but it isn't really revealing anything unique or interesting.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 28d
For the USA it's WSJ then NYT and only then New York Post. The top two are right wing rags by their own account but at least they use Liberalism as its cover and don't call Mamdani a Muzlamic tourist
TheOubliette@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 28d
Germany loves a genocide
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 29d
The resistance fighting against the nazis and hiding jews from death camps were also considered extremists and terrorists. Germany doesn't change when it comes to genocide.