Richter discusses the fight of the "Berliner Zeitung" to become the voice of the reunified city of Berlin. The city has been divided for so long, however, that difficulties have arisen in finding ...common ground concerning the interests of both east and west parts of the city.
This article examines how different German newspaper reported on the Japanese colonization of Korea, as well as their diverse perspective on the colonization. In opposition to the stereotypical ...notion that the Western media abounded with reports on orientalism and colonialism, this article argues that German journalists and newspapers were sufficiently diverse to provide divergent perspectives on the Japanese colonization of Korea. Furthermore, a careful analysis of the German newspaper reports reveals the existence of the strong editorial frame, which seems to predetermine the direction of these news reports. The newspapers that clearly supported the Japanese could be identified and they did ignore the situation of the Korean peoples on which the other newspapers did not fail to report. This diversity doesn't allow simple and easy explanation, but can be used as a strong evidence to refute the omnipresence of the colonial discourse.
The present study analyzed the patterns of the German newspaper coverage about the antagonists of the Lebanon war 2006. The following research questions were addressed: Firstly, which actor of the ...Lebanon war 2006 is mainly portrayed as the aggressor and which as the victim - the Israeli, the Lebanese or Hezbollah actors? Secondly, are there any differences between the newspapers - "Sueddeutsche Zeitung", "Welt" and "tageszeitung". As findings of the quantitative content analysis indicate, Israeli actors are characterized as both aggressor and victim. The second most description of the aggressor role applied to actors of the Hezbollah. Lebanese actors are rarely portrayed as aggressor. They are, after Israeli actors, the second most group characterized in the victim role. Differences between the analyzed newspapers are found. Adapted from the source document.
Discourses of 'political correctness' ('PC') are (Anglo-) American in origin. But one of the aims of this special issue of Discourse & Society is to explore 'PC' from the perspective of languages ...other than English and, in this article, we look at the case of German. After providing a brief discursive history of 'political correctness' in Germany, we present an empirical study of 'PC'-related discourses in a corpus of texts gathered from the newspaper Die Welt. The analysis of the data begins with a quantitative survey of German 'PC'-related terms from 1995 to 2000. This is followed by a qualitative analysis of the use of those terms during this period. The article reveals many similarities but also a number of interesting differences between Anglo-American and German discourses of 'political correctness', especially where the themes of national identity and the so-called 'normalization' of German historical consciousness are concerned.
In this paper we look at the German newspaper Rheinische Post (RP) which was founded directly after WWII as a license newspaper. Based on our findings from Rheinische Post, we argue that the ...historical contextualization of identity procewspaperss studies needs to be enhanced. We propose going one step further including the foundation and the pre-history of organizations in studies of organizational identity. As the RP case shows, important aspects of a company’s founding identity are shaped prior to the formal foundation and sometimes going far back into the personal histories of founders may help us understand how an organization’s identity initially came about.
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