Germany: an Autumn of Discontent - Updated | 32 comments (32 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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I wonder about your use of "English language press" as a categorization of all that is wrong-headed. Is there a pan-European language other than English?

You are equating the language of the newspaper, English, with an economic model and a broad mindset that does not see "European," and yet if English is the common language of Europe, one would think that there would be European-language (i.e., English) news sources that reflect the proper European way of looking at things.

What are they? Who are the European-language news outlets that I can read that will reflect the correct way of looking at things? BBC? Guardian? Spiegel?

by asdf on Sun Nov 5th, 2006 at 01:35:56 PM EST
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What are they? Who are the European-language news outlets that I can read that will reflect the correct way of looking at things? BBC? Guardian? Spiegel?

Quite simply, they are not in English.

EVERYTHING in English has a anti-French, anti-German and anti-European bias. It's not as pronounced in every publication and every article, but it's the general background against which stories are built.

And I do mean this a a sweeping statement.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Nov 5th, 2006 at 02:10:53 PM EST
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This is a pretty big problem, then, I would say. If der Spiegel can offer an English version, why can't the journals that tell it the way it is (or should be)?

Apparently the left in Europe is not interested in communicating with the rest of the world?

by asdf on Sun Nov 5th, 2006 at 06:39:25 PM EST
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EVERYTHING in English has a anti-French, anti-German and anti-European bias.

Does the Le Monde Diplomatique in English have an anti-French, anti-German and anti-European bias? How about EuroNews in English?

They very well may; I only rarely read them so I wouldn't know. But as I noted in dvx's diary on Germany, I am often struck by neoliberal undercurrents in Der Spiegel's English version.

Rien ne réussit comme le succès.

by marco on Sun Nov 5th, 2006 at 06:56:50 PM EST
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Germany: an Autumn of Discontent - Updated | 32 comments (32 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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