The journalist Julia Ruhs at an event in the Hermann-Ehrers Academy
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The CDU gets into the cultural struggle. It is the old game of the right to tell publicly nonsense and then claim that they are censored. So far it was the preferred tactic of the AfD. After the NDR announced on Thursday that journalist Julia Ruhs no longer had the show “Clear”, conservative politicians screamed. This decision is “very problematic” (Jens Spahn), an “extremely bad signal” (Daniel Günther), and Carsten Linnemann complained about a “new low in the debate culture in Germany” and called for consequences – for example, the radio fees could be freezed, “so that pressure is finally created so that reforms happen.”
If the conservative “reforms” require, it usually gets worse. It is also a distortion of the facts here. After around 250 employees of the NDR complained in an internal protest letter about Ruhs because they violated “a number of principles of our journalistic work”, she no longer wanted the NDR as a moderator, but the BR continues – there she continues, that is the federal system.
At the BR, the 31-year-old Ruhs, former scholarship holder for Journalistic Young talent from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, had slipped steeply and smoothly into the “Conservative, Young woman in public service broadcasting ‘, as the“ Zeit ”wrote. However, she personally looked relatively exhausted when she visited the “mirror” to the portrait.
But the critics should be the stupid. In this way, she moderated three programs of “Clear” with the focus of migration, agriculture and corona in a very lurid way and claimed to “regain a lost target group” in this way. The CDU argues similarly if it approaches the AfD politically to weaken it.
Ruhs calls her political position “center-right” and sees itself as a victim of “intrigue” at the NDR: “For the right-wing radicality, for example, if you say, for example, Friedrich Merz is well found,” she told the podcast “Table Media”. The whole process should fit in the stuff in the marketing of her first book that has just appeared. It is called “left-green opinion power” and is said to warn of the “division of our country”, in which left-wing moral manipulators are said to be in charge. Funny only that the rich are still getting richer.
The fact that the media are on the left is conservative ancient propaganda since Helmut Kohl. And even if you only want to understand a moderate, social democratic form of desire for better educational opportunities and more company participation under “Links”, it has never been right. Because since Willy Brandt, the first and last left -wing Chancellor, has hardly been enforced.
There are currently a few advanced podcasts and three left -wing daily newspapers in the Federal Republic, who keep afloat with a small edition and oh and noise (“ND”, “taz” and “JW”) – which is a “left -wing opinion” is a bad joke. Donald Trump likes something like that, the AfD too. And the CDU is right again.