SPIEGEL 09/2011 :
The political class is feeling the power of "image" always particularly when politics and private life collide offense. Horst Seehofer has experienced that, but others were wronged, if they find a new love, left their families, illegitimate children testified. In such cases, where all the basic ingredients of the boulevard - personalization, emotion, and politicization scandal - can stir a pot, forget the "Picture" Reporters sometimes, as in a frenzy, the rules of the profession.
Claudia Roth has made this experience ; the strange headlines about them Although only five years ago, but today it is in the sight of the sheet after they fought back against accusations. "Bild" reported in large letters on a large scale and over a supposed "Amigo affair" of the Green Party politician. The allegation was that she had procured her partner "lucrative government contracts." Only was the whole story "completely far-fetched and simply lied," says Roth.
the man to whom it was, she had first met when the allegedly gathered by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection awarded for almost a year was. On the day of wrong "image" story she got angry with it yet Citizens do. In a pedestrian zone, it was by people as "corrupt and dishonest" insulted , and especially after she told herself: ". I do not let me sit on" And she was serious.
She accused a reply, in the same size, on the same space as the original report, and prevailed. Springer drove the process by the judicial authorities - and always got Claudia Roth law. As the legal way out was reached, there trying Springer different. Roth's staff and press officers of the Green Party has been urged repeatedly to "consider again," the thing with the reply, finally stand a federal election campaign into the house, people said things like "Picture". Viewed in retrospect, it seems like the open threat of negative reporting.
As the Green Party chairman is not intended received, she was on "image-editing the publication offered a large home story, a sympathetic history of a sense about them and their lives, as restitution. But Roth was hard: "I do not sell back my honor" she says.
The reply came, finally, huge, ghostly , are provided with the small remark: ". Ms Roth Law The editors have." And as on the day of their victory, "image" Feierzum a 60-year anniversary of the CDU in the theater went on Schiffbauerdamm, stood with her colleagues are lining up to congratulate them for their courage. "What is it if you please for a system," says Roth, "where it is already as brave, to fight against clearly false assertions of fact?"
has since Claudia Roth from time to time represented in the "Bild"-Zeitung as "losers of the day" or, as recently, in 2nd place a "picture" ranking of "The 30 most annoying talk show guests ". Your career does not hurt that. For Green Party, she says, whether in their own electorate a kind of distinction, "Picture" insults to werden.Kollegen der anderen großen Parteien hätten mehr Angst vor der Berichterstattung des Blatts. Sie würden bei ihrem Handeln auch viel stärker darauf achten, wie es bei der großen Zeitung mit den großen Lettern ankommen mag. "Natürlich nimmt 'Bild' Einfluss auf das politische Geschehen", sagt Roth. "Bei etlichen Kollegen erzeugt sie gehörigen Respekt."
Für die CDU hat 'Bild' innerparteilich die Funktion eines rechtspopulistischen Flügels übernommen. In dem Blatt wird formuliert, was sich anschließend in der öffentlichen Debatte instrumentalisieren lässt. Alles, was etwa insinuiert, dass "die Migranten" ein Problem in Deutschland darstellten, wird von Diekmanns Leuten taken by preference. First condense into "image", individual messages and comments on a xenophobic whole ...
In Springer-Verlag appear the WORLD , BZ, Berliner Morgenpost, Hamburg's evening paper and its sub-products.
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