By Martin Hoffmann, ECPMF
The reproach of "lying press" echoes above right-wing demonstrations, through internet boards and publications for a year now. Parallel to the rise of right-wing populist movements that gained strong influence especially in Eastern Germany, journalists at work are attacked more and more frequently. The ECPMF Fact Finding Mission “Lying press” consisted of research into cases that happened in the last year all over Germany, in extended interviews with the journalists Helmut Schümann, Merten Waage and Andreas Postel, who were affected in different aspects of the “Lying press”-debate and connected attacks, editor-in-chief of regional paper Dirk Birgel,…
