“Bild” editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt was released from his duties. On the Strauss-Kahn scale, which is open to the top, he gets a whopping 7, while the Springer board is frantically trying to close the zipper again with some dignity.
Ding Dong, the hex is dead. You are always a little proud when a German executive makes it into the “New York Times”, but that’s a little bit like that … Julian Reichelt is from his duties as Editor-in-chief of the “Bild” newspaper released, or better: he has puffed up.
One could also have said that he got his papers – but with someone who is said to have tried to create a stable basis for copulation with interns with forged divorce certificates, this formulation feels somehow wrong. “Tell me, are those rolled up divorce papers in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?”
The reason for his now somewhat surprising dismissal: Reichelt did not clearly separate professional and private matters even after completing a compliance procedure. Which is an understatement, like saying that the withdrawal from Afghanistan could have been more orderly.
For all we believe we know, the dethroned regime was one big dieter’s frenzy. A system in which women were set according to “fuckability”, could sleep their way up or to the side and generally a climate of mistrust (“fits, that’s one of Julian’s”) and humiliation prevailed.
All of this so wonderfully dingy garnished with drugs and bribes, so that one may wonder why it is actually still called the Axel and not the Jerry Springer house. For some women, everyday work at Dick Brave and the Bad Bilds must have been something of a squid game.
Julian Reichelt’s camp bed in the black light
Presumably everyone was happy when the camera team from Amazon came by every now and then – as long as the documentary was being filmed, they were safe. If someone bothered to illuminate the camp bed in Reichelt’s office with black light, they would probably become snow-blind.
If we have learned one thing about our times: the harder you try to prevent a disclosure, the brighter the media nuclear waste shines. This is also the case here, when these events, revealed by the brave investigative team from Ippen-Media, suddenly appeared in great detail in the “New York Times” (!).
Short question: If Springer intended to hide these explosive details about Reichelt from the public, why didn’t they just report about it on BILD TV? On the Strauss-Kahn scale, which is open to the top, the ex-boss gets a whopping 7, while the Springer board is frantically trying to close the zipper again with some dignity.
It was not until the “New York Times” that everything got rolling
Somehow it happened surprisingly quickly: In February, you check the conduct of the executive for two weeks via Freshfields, and you find out that it is not that bad, only after what felt like five minutes after the article in the “New York Times” to balance: For God’s sake, the man has to go! It’s also a bit stupid when you expand, buy “Politico”, want to increase your influence in the USA and bring a nice gift basket full of #metoo as a gift.
On the other hand: If, as CEO of a large media company, I had compared the last federal government with the GDR, then I would first dismiss my editor-in-chief as a distraction because I suddenly noticed that his behavior was not working at all.
While we are all busy jumping over Reichelt’s stick, it is often overlooked that the real scandal is primarily this: For a long time Mathias Döpfner indulged his priapist printer as a kind of Mr. Stamper, because “he really is the last and only journalist in Germany “Be,” who still bravely rebelled against the new GDR authoritarian state. Almost everyone else has become propaganda assistants. “
What role does Matthias Döpfner play?
Only when there was really no other way did Reichelt – in order to stay in the “picture” – have to make the beer man and was sent into exile. Julian Reichelt is not the head of the fish, but at best: the tail. You almost want to laugh: The board of a company in which others are suppressed, researched and terrorized smells GDR somewhere else! Merkel dictatorship?
Döpfner is the head of a huge media empire and hardly sounds any different from Wendler. The man is also chairman of the Association of Newspaper Publishers. If you don’t find that scary, you would also make Jan Josef Liefers Minister of Health. The partners in the USA and we too should therefore look all the more critically at the ideological bell under which publication is being made.
And we, who look so complacent at the recently captured Reichelt, shouldn’t forget that the events on Rudi-Dutschke-Straße are exemplary for thousands of companies in Germany, where exactly this lack of culture is completely natural.
In the end, at least the nice punch line remains that Julian Reichelt somehow rewarded the good work of many young journalists like Juliane Löffler in the end. They just didn’t come from your own house.