Freedom of the press/public?
The main goal of journalism is to regulate the national politics. One should be able to critically scrutinise the actions made by politicians. With the journalism nowadays all we get to read about how Trump is going to destroy the world. Very rarely does one get not just a describing coverage of certain action but also a commenting news coverage. News coverage which actually values the news and not just describing the news.
A very interesting youtube channel I find is “Jung&Naiv” which regularly visits the German press conference to ask critical questions. Very rarely does one get a sufficient answer accompanied by uncountable empty phrases by Steffen Seibert. It just shows how much information the politicians are willing to pass on to the public.
Another very intriguing internet site is netzpolitik.org. They actually critically assess the dealing of the politicians which seems to be becoming a rarity.
One action by the German politicians is their acting after an act of terrorism. They argue that after for the terrible attacks in the last year, security measures have to be increased. In this case I would like to recall the “Vorratsdatenspeicherung” by Sigmar Gabriel which in fact has done nothing to prevent any act of terrorism but rather limit the freedom of the German inhabitants. For some odd reason, this seems to be the common case after such a terror act. Nothing is done to actively combat the danger but rather use the act in order to limit the Germans freedom. To understand my concern I entitle the actions of politicians after such an act of terror as a post-trauma. Not only does the population suffer from the attack itself but it is afflicted pain by the loss of the freedom rights. It is very absurd considering Germany fought for so long to gain the freedom rights they once possessed to lose them as soon as one terrorist attacks the German public. An act of terror should be combated with resilience and not everyone losing their head.
The anti-state actions by the terrors are not battled by the German politicians but rather enhanced by limiting the public’s freedom. If one closely follows the aftermath of such an attack one sees that this is very common in German politics. One has the feeling that acts of terror are used to legitimise the limitation of the public.
