@retrohondajunki@mstdn.social
#DerSpiegel is an age-old, respected, *leftist* (Social-Democratic) weekly.
You are wrong in this part of your assesment.
The huge rise of the right in #Germany, in the former #Communist states before #Reunification by contrast is a fact.
It is also a fact that at least almost a million people have been demonstrations in virtually all towns this past week.
The demos had to be closed prematurely in #Hamburg and #Munich due to severe overcrowding.
Biggest demos in..
@freediverx
A good question.
I'm not sure what #CNN is anymore nowadays.
Re/ #DerSpiegel, I'm not an avid reader. However, it is not "leftist" in the sense of "socialist" or even "communist", but definitely left-of-center.
I checked on the long German Wikipedia article.*
Only once in the journal's long history there seem to have been #antisemtic allegations. (2006) However, the #German Press watchdog cleared the publication. (Furthermore,..
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...I did quite a bit of reading on #Echnaton myself and immediately had the same base idea: he invented #monotheism.)
Finally, #DerSpiegel is one of #GERMANY's trend-setting media (#Leitmedien.)
As I said, most mainstream media shared the same assessment of #GretaThunberg at the time.
So, no, it is not fostering right-wing extremism.
However, it definitely is not one of its best covers and the subtitle is too ballyhooed/Yellow Press style.
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