The result of the US presidential election and the sensationalist manner in which it has widely been covered has fired up the debate on whether the media influence or at least reinforce the pre-existing political views of its…
News values state that “bad news is more newsworthy than good news” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_values). In how far is this suggestion true and…
During this year’s European Football Championship, the whole world’s attention seemed to have shifted to one small nation with a population of little more than 330,000 people. I certainly wouldn’t…
For my first blogpost I decided to write about something rather funny in connection to the election: my all time favorite thing on social media — memes. You can find them all over Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram; especially when something “important” happens in the…
Hardly any presidential election had such a medial presence as the one between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Even on German TV stations broadcast during the election night up into the morning hours, observing the…
We want the old times back!
A sentence that we hear very often and scoff about. ‘Old people who can’t deal with the modern world!’ And yet, we aren’t any better.
In modern times we are so very lucky to be well connected, everywhere, anytime. Something advertised by any phone provider. And it sounds…
About a week ago, Donald J. Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States. Throughout the week he already started to announce parts of his future staff. A lot of whom are either very conservative or even racist and antisemitic.
While I enjoy the online presences of newspapers like the Zeit or the Guardian and try to read their articles regularly, I have to admit that I my favourite way to get in touch with what is happening in the world (or rather what has been happening) is via satire…
In the past week the lists of most read stories of pretty much all the major news websites looked almost exactly the same. But wait, isn’t that normal? Big news on one website is probably also big news on another website, so should the most read stories not generally be the same? Yes, of course…
I recently watched a video in which a person who’s an expert on crime discusses whether criminality in Germany is increasing because of refugees. Since I‘ve heard about crime involving refugees in the news a lot, I checked…
