Herb, athos has had the humpty with me for ages, mybe I called him stoopid or something.
But anyway, if he doesn't believe me I'll post the article (operating under difficulties atm):

By Oliver Lane, Breitbart:
A retired media boss at a major German state broadcaster has admitted his network and others take orders from the government on what — and what not — to report.

National public service broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), which was recently forced into a humiliating apology for their silence on migrant violence and sex assault is being drawn into a fresh scandal after one of their former bureau chiefs admitted the company takes orders from the government on what it reports. He said journalists received instructions to write news that would be “to Ms. Merkel’s liking”.
Former head of ZDF Bonn Dr. Wolfgang Herles make the remarks during a radio event (from minute 27) in Berlin where journalists discussed the media landscape. Moving on to the freedom of the press, the panel chair asked Dr. Herles whether things in Germany had got “seriously out of whack”. With an honesty perhaps unusual in Germany, Dr. Herles replied that ordinary Germans were totally losing faith in the media, something he called a “scandal”. He said:

“We have the problem that – now I’m mainly talking about the public [state] media – we have a closeness to the government. Not only because commentary is mainly in line with the grand coalition (CSU, CDU, and SPD), with the spectrum of opinion, but also because we are completely taken in by the agenda laid down by the political class”.

Worse than the mainstream, government controlled and poll-tax funded media in Germany just agreeing with the ruling coalition, the stations actually took orders on what was and was not to be reported on. He said:

“…the topics about which are reported are laid down by the government.

“There are many topics that would be more important than what the government wants. But they, of course, want to deflect attention away from what doesn’t happen. Yet what doesn’t happen is often more important than what does happen – more important than gesture politics”.

While these orders are sent to media companies from unspecified places in the government, they are communicated to individual journalists by news executives using a new-speak jargon. Dr. Herles explains that while “there are, in fact, instructions from above”, when the editor in chief of ZDF communicated these instructions to his juniors he would merely say reporting should be framed in a way that “serves Europe and the public good”.
There would be no need to add in brackets that this actually means it should be reported “to Ms. Merkel’s liking”, as they would be understood as the true meaning.
“Today, one is not allowed to say anything negative about the refugees” said Dr. Herles, concluding: “This is government journalism and that leads to a situation in which people no longer trust us. This is a scandal.”

There has been very little reporting of the comments in the German media, and what there was has been critical of the remarks. Focus reported the comments of one centre-left media figure, Der Freitag newspaper editor Jakob Augstein who when asked whether there had ever been such “instructions from above”, said: “No, I deny vehemently there has ever been commands from the top”.

That the German mainstream media is not free and routinely obscures or bends the truth has been a key criticism by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of Europe (PEGIDA) movement, which has coined phrases like Lügenpresse — the liar press — to express their frustration.

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It's not just Germany of course, it's everywhere in the west.
It's ironic that RT from Putin's Russia is one outlet that will publish stories that are held back in the west. They have their own agenda of course.
But it's the same here. I showed a few days back what the SMH covered in relation to Europe, preferring to tell us what the EU Commission said instead of the truth of what is happening on the streets, in the town & cities of Europe.  Absolute disgrace, but what do you expect from a paper that just takes feeds from the New York Times.
Murdoch is no better. He is in bed with the global arbiters of opinion too.

Lord Herbert wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2016 at 12:10pm:


Suppressing your dinosaurs fascist Victorian arrogance and showing little respect for others definitely wouldn't hurt pome maggot like you.

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2016 at 12:19pm:


Please explain.
Paulin

Well I for one don't bear you any ill will and I haven't seen other people being savage towards you

bogarde73 wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2016 at 4:03pm:




I'm a bit surprised by Athole's attitude, bogarde, considering that he's a Greek and Athens is right up there second from the top as where most people are utterly disenchanted with this 'Muslim Refugees' bullshit in Europe.

The people of Athens hate having this multicultural 'strength through diversity' thrust upon them.

Most Athenians would be sympathetic to our views, bogarde, but apparently Athos is the exception.


link

athos wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2016 at 4:20pm:


No one wants to slaughter you. They are merely disagreeing with you. Perhaps dialectics isn't a part of Chinese tradition?

Here's another worthy decision by the sponsors of global population movement:

The government of Berlin, no doubt at Frau Merkel's behest, is to spend 600 million euros on housing the great unwashable of the ME & Africa in mid to luxury hotels while up to 10,000 homeless Germans are living on the streets.

No doubt there will be extra costs when the pigswill eventually move on, such as fumigation and cleaning out drains as has occurred when they were housed in sports centres etc.

There is plenty of cheaper rental property available apparently but maybe the UNHCR sets certain standards for such honoured guests.