In the Zeit: Open Season, a dossier about the victims of attention-seeking ala Raab and Bild ...
The major problem I see here is not just the Bild newspaper and Raab and similar media garbage - the real problem is the acceptance with which this crap is consumed. After months, you no longer know where you read or heard something - and in doing so, you contribute as a vector to the spread of this nonsense.
When I then imagine the Springer publishing group wanting to get its hands on the Pro7/Sat.1 group and with that, presumably next, Bild newspaper and Raab pulling together on the same rope, I feel sick ...
A democratic society lives, among other things, on the diversity of opinion that must also be reflected in media diversity. But when the media landscape becomes dominated across media by a corporation with a clear political agenda (anyone who doubts that can just look at the coverage of Bild newspaper around the time of the last Hamburg citizenship election - best have a sickness bag ready or it'll hit the keyboard), an important factor for democracy is lost.
And so an ugly alliance forms between business associations and a media culture in which one no longer wants to use the word culture - and it degenerates into incitement against the sick, the unemployed, foreigners and left-wing politicians, which already uncomfortably resembles times one actually thought were over ...