According to reports, this was so her ownership of the portrait cannot be disputed; the painting can be loaned to the chancellery, but Merkel would be able to take it back should the far right get into power.
I wonder why she’s so apprehensive of the new allies of her friend Putin, I wonder if she’s jealous.
With her keeping Orbán in power that long and Germany tied to the Russian economy, I hope she’s proud of the crisis she’s wrought.
I don’t understand how the worst thing to happen to Europe can still have such a cult of personality.
The media not asking the painful questions. Just now, SPD boss Klingbeil’s intent to tighten doctor’s notes, the whole CumEx thing, the unnecessary publicity for the AfD, and whatever else there is.
Like bribery and the bribery index, in Germany we don’t pay cops but we reward politicians with seats on company boards. Likewise the media ticks all boxes for free media but there is still influence.
Media scandals exist. Revolutionary observation. Do you now how high Hungary scores in freedom of press rankings all over the world and do you know how high Germany scores in the same rankings?
Spoiler: Hungary scores worse than Germany in all of them and is typical among the worst if not the worst of all EU countries.
What good is the ranking if the media still doesn’t ask the relevant questions? The ranking becomes part of the decrption. The media is trusted, not much more is expected while the politicians still don’t make politics for the people.
You were talking about freedom of press and how it was better in Hungary under Orban which is just not true by any metric. That you personal have a problem with the press is just that, a you problem.
Who is the freer animal, the lion in a cage or an unleashed, well-trained dog?
You can open the cage and the lion is free, but how do you set the dog free?
I wrote ‘imagine’ because I can’t offer hard facts. I can just point at the lack of investigations for the amount of money that the citizens have to pay for free media. 8 billion dollars, a budget to keep an eye on any politician. If it is only a me problem then I have to assume that the other citizens are happy with their politicians and their decisions.
I wonder why she’s so apprehensive of the new allies of her friend Putin, I wonder if she’s jealous.
With her keeping Orbán in power that long and Germany tied to the Russian economy, I hope she’s proud of the crisis she’s wrought.
I don’t understand how the worst thing to happen to Europe can still have such a cult of personality.
Just imagine that the media in Germany and other countries is less free than it was in Hungary during Orban’s reign.
That’s just false.
Souce: https://rsf.org/en/index
It’s false of course. Plyth and HK-65 are just engaging in “Germany bad”. Don’t feed the troll.
That really would take quite some imagining.
And what is your source for that?
I mean other than your own imagination.
The media not asking the painful questions. Just now, SPD boss Klingbeil’s intent to tighten doctor’s notes, the whole CumEx thing, the unnecessary publicity for the AfD, and whatever else there is.
We know that media companies rely on advertisements and the public broadcasters are steered by political boards. From time to time we notice the Gell-Mann Amnesia but without consequences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#"Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect"
Like bribery and the bribery index, in Germany we don’t pay cops but we reward politicians with seats on company boards. Likewise the media ticks all boxes for free media but there is still influence.
Media scandals exist. Revolutionary observation. Do you now how high Hungary scores in freedom of press rankings all over the world and do you know how high Germany scores in the same rankings? Spoiler: Hungary scores worse than Germany in all of them and is typical among the worst if not the worst of all EU countries.
What good is the ranking if the media still doesn’t ask the relevant questions? The ranking becomes part of the decrption. The media is trusted, not much more is expected while the politicians still don’t make politics for the people.
You were talking about freedom of press and how it was better in Hungary under Orban which is just not true by any metric. That you personal have a problem with the press is just that, a you problem.
Who is the freer animal, the lion in a cage or an unleashed, well-trained dog?
You can open the cage and the lion is free, but how do you set the dog free?
I wrote ‘imagine’ because I can’t offer hard facts. I can just point at the lack of investigations for the amount of money that the citizens have to pay for free media. 8 billion dollars, a budget to keep an eye on any politician. If it is only a me problem then I have to assume that the other citizens are happy with their politicians and their decisions.
Germany bad
What do you mean?