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Stefan Aust, the new chief editor after Augstein, was the boss of SPIEGEL TV before. There were some minor signs of a separate line back then: less precise reporting and with some ominous moments like one reportage about 'immigrant crime' in Hamburg. Then during the run-up of the Iraq war, it caused me some head-scratching when they chose to report about anti-war protests by showing one NPD [German neo-Nazi party for the uninitiated] protest at a US base.

The economy department also harboured the men of the future, and there is Henryk M. Broder, SPIEGEL's de-facto senior columnist, who let his pro-Israeli views lead him straight to neoconservatism.

The first time they got their line across was when just before the Iraq War started, SPIEGEL printed excerpts from Kenneth Pollack's ridiculous The Threatening Storm.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Wed Apr 25th, 2007 at 04:55:00 PM EST
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It's not Broder that's the change - he's so far out there that it doesn't really matter. More characteristic is someone like Claus Christian Malzahn.
by MarekNYC on Wed Apr 25th, 2007 at 05:28:55 PM EST
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...I just wanted to add a comment on Malzahn, whith a link to when he was discussed on ET.

Regarding Broder, what I meant that he is no more that far out there but a stalwart of the redaction.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Wed Apr 25th, 2007 at 05:40:40 PM EST
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NB, I've never actually bothered to watch any of the Spiegel TV stuff - is it worth it?
by MarekNYC on Wed Apr 25th, 2007 at 05:30:37 PM EST
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Not anymore.

They used to have some rather good historical documentaries, and in current reportages, they had a gift to catch revealing moments. But then aggression and narration got dominant, and I quit watching.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Wed Apr 25th, 2007 at 05:35:57 PM EST
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