The month of fasting for Muslims is an important part of the Islamic calendar and affects many millions of people around the world every year, including in Germany. How does the media portray this in this country? In addition, how do they generally report on Islam and Muslims? SZ journalist Nils Minkmar talks about this in the current episode of "quoted. der medienpodcast".Guest: Fabian Goldmann, Islamic scholar, journalist and media critic, blog operator "Shantal and Sharia". For a long time...
A new episode of "quoted. der medienpodcast" deals with the question of how debates about the dispute in the Middle East are going and what role the German media play in this. Guest: Meron Mendel.The Middle East conflict comes to a head; at the same time, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been protesting against the new right-wing government for weeks. Plenty of reason for the media in Germany to report about it. What does this reporting look like? How...
After the earthquake, before the elections: A new episode of "quoted. der medienpodcast" is about how freely the media in Turkey can report. Guest: Spiegel journalist Özlem Topçu.The devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria claimed the lives of more than 50,000 people, seriously injured countless others and left them homeless. We read a lot about it in the local media and heard that the extent of the catastrophe also has political reasons, for example because there was too little control...
Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine has been going on for almost a year now, and this year has also shown how far Vladimir Putin's propaganda goes to justify this war and keep the Russian president in power. But not only dictators use manipulative communication strategies.Even in democratic societies, politically extreme right-wing actors in particular try to poison public debates, divide society and profit from it. Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, Marine Le Pen and Giorgia Meloni stand for this strategy....
February is the Black History Month in North America, meanwhile it is also celebrated in Germany as Black History Month with various events. A reason for us to ask: What actually happened to the media debate about racism? It was intense in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests after the violent death of black American George Floyd almost three years ago. In Germany, too, numerous people protested against racism and police violence. Newspapers, broadcasters and online media in...
"The violence has a migration background" (NZZ), "rioting migrants" (bild.de), "A question of failed integration?" (FAZ): Headlines from the first days of this year. In Berlin and other German cities there were massive attacks on the police and emergency services on New Year's Eve, especially in the Neukölln district. The Berlin police published preliminary figures, according to which around two-thirds of those arrested on New Year's Eve in Berlin did not have a German passport.A political and media debate ensued...
Homemediapodcastquoted. the media podcast:How was 2022?December 22, 2022 at 11:33 amOpen detailed viewThe new episode quoted. the media podcast. (Photo: SZ)From the war in Ukraine to the protests in Iran to negative stereotypes in reporting about refugees - a review of the year in the new episode "quoted. der medienpodcast". By Nadia Zaboura and Nils MinkmarlistenNoticeSplitfeedbackTo pressThe war in Ukraine or the protests in Iran as reflected in the reporting and how newspapers, broadcasters and online media deal with many...
Why is this World Cup polarizing so much? Is it right to deny Qatar the right to host a World Cup? Or is the outrage hypocritical? A new episode of "quoted. der medienpodcast" deals with these questions. The German team is out, but the ball keeps rolling and we take a preliminary look at the coverage of this World Cup and the country hosting it. "World Cup of shame", "tournament of hypocrites", calls for a boycott: the outrage over the...
What is behind the term "cancel culture" and where the phenomenon is to be located politically is dealt with in a new episode of "quoted. der medienpodcast". Guest: literature professor Adrian Daub.The accusation that a cancel culture prevails here or there comes up fairly quickly in the political and media discourse these days. For example, when discriminatory terms or prejudices against entire sections of the population become the object of public disapproval, and when this in turn provokes critics who...
A new episode of "quoted. der medienpodcast" deals with how the German media portrays the protests in Iran and how it is received by the Iranian community in Germany. Guest: WDR journalist Isabel Schayani.The protests in Iran have been going on for almost two months now. Citizens from all walks of life are taking to the streets across the country to demand an end to the mullahs' regime, despite brutal reactions from the so-called security forces, despite the risk of...
