...but I feel it's time we gave the Bildblog, a teamblog operated by five German journalists (does that make it a teamhackblog?) devoted to a daily critique of the Bild Zeitung, Germany's most-read and most sensationalistic newspaper, due credit. Think the Sun but without the hypocritical sense of propriety. These boys printed photos of Princess Diana dying in the wreck of her car within a week of her death. Kelvin MacKenzie, eat yer heart out. They'd probably print that, too. In fact, I'd probably read that, so who am I to criticise? Different standards may apply, of course - not so long ago a German celeb mag ran a detailed story about the actor, Harald Schmidt, claiming that he was dying, barely compos mentis, of extreme alcoholism and had lost the power of speech, and got in a lot of trouble when he turned out to be hale and hearty. But I digress.
Today, for example, they pick up the BZ for apparently republishing articles from the Observer as their own (can't see the Sun doing that, mind you), and go on to explain exactly why Bild reports so enthusiastically about a German pay-TV station's subscription figures - because free trial subscriptions to the channel, part-owned by the paper's owner, are being given away on its website. Nice.
Great blog. Even in German. Sorry.
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