Summary:
It could be argued that Germany is the "birthplace of European intellectual journalism". However, media in Germany has had to endure frustration and trauma in achieving such high standing in the journalistic world
THE PRINCIPLES BEHIND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIA IN WEST GERMANY
It could be argued that Germany is the "birthplace of European intellectual journalism"¹. However, media in Germany has had to endure frustration and trauma in achieving such high standing in the journalistic world; suffering the "fragmentation of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries"¹, restrictions born of censorship and political control of the "long period of stultifying authoritarianism and relative economic stagnation"¹ of that time. Moreover, the Bismarck period, despite the first government thereof introducing the allegedly "'liberating' [sic]" 'Reichspressegesetz' (Imperial Press Law) "was hardly liberal... Above all, the limited 'liberalisation' of the press law reflected the rising power and influence of the industrial and commercial middle classes"². However, it would be the effects of the dictatorship and censorship of the Third Reich that would ultimately shatter, and.....
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