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Also, the journalists they employ are obviously beneficiaries of the freedom of press as well as of opinion, which drastically limits the influence of the government on their reporting.

Now legally speaking, they are an independent legal person of the public law. Meaning they have been granted a degree of freedom in the DWG (Deutsche Welle Law), § 68 DWG states that there is no legal way of taking influence on their journalistic work.

Now, any further legal dive would be too much to really follow, plus I am too lazy. They are however quite a unique legal product that is a beneficiary of the constitutional rights as well as having to follow them themselves

I didn't mean to say it in a demeaning way. DW is certainly a better news outlet than many others, especially major US ones. And how much sway the government actually has is unclear to me as well. Nevertheless their conception from day one has been and still is to be a spokesman for the German state in its entirety.

Am 3. Mai 1953 geht die Deutsche Welle von Köln aus als Hörfunksender mit einer Radioansprache von Bundespräsident Theodor Heuss erstmals auf Sendung. Gegründet von der Bundesregierung, soll sie dem Ausland die junge Bundesrepublik vermitteln und die Wiederaufnahme Deutschlands in die internationale Staatengemeinschaft medial begleiten. Taken directly from their website.

Or for those not German speaking, paraphrasing loosely: Founded by the federal government their mission was to tell the world of the young federal Germany and to help reintegrate Germany into the international community of countries medially.

My goal was not to belittle their work - I really like their work from what I've seen so far. However I wanted to point out that the media outlet that was founded to paint Germany in a positive - though often critical- way, is now apparently more trustworthy than a majority of major (sort of independent) US news outlets and gets cited alongside the Guardian.

But because you're still correct on my style of writing to be quite a bit to placative, I will add a disclaimer to my initial comment.

You guys know that DW is basically German "propaganda" it is literally the German government's news outlet. And I don't mean in a public broadcasting kind of way.

Edit.: because this comment could be and has been seen as to placative and one-sided, pls. also take regard of my answer below.

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This tilts people way to hard for what it is - a slightly drunk -

The fights for freedom one was posted a few weeks ago (I saved it early February). Here is the picture alone

Cheer up, we'll just have to recruit more

Simplicity is certainly a thing, but you shouldn't forget that there's quite a bit of survivor's bias in that statement

Reporting for duty o7

Just today I had a unanimous agreement with people from all politcal spectrums except for far right (cause I don't consider them friends) that we should do the alc tax once again

They look very much early 20th century riding trousers inspired - very much as German (para-)military uniforms were between 1933-45

Finally confirmed footage of Ukraine using biological weapons

Yeah that restriction is probably also why LOL is not on there

All that it took was war in Europe and ally you cannot depend on as well as the current order being overthrown - wait a minute that reminds of something, not sure what though

Maybe or it's just that Ukraine is not fighting Muslims and people with darker than white skin

Charter yachts can be spotted relatively easily. They have standard small name design, sail small flags and are mostly pretty standard yachts. No expensive extras, mostly basic and relatively well maintained if boring

Meanwhile Rheinmetall: 980 €

Russian men irl are NAFO Fellas?

It was subscription based, you'd have had to have a deal with your supply officer for some napalm

I think your assumption is partly true, the other part being that they do not care if the economy goes to shit as that would just leave them with more to blame on the other parties.