Thomas
Ehrhorn
EU
Action Plan for Disinformation
AfD
Kompakt, February 20, 2020
[Thomas Ehrhorn is an Alternative für Deutschland
Bundestag member from the western German state of Lower Saxony. He is a pilot.
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) was formerly mayor of Hamburg.]
With
the “Action Plan for Disinformation”, EU Commission President von der Leyen
placidly pursues the wrong way already driven by the EU. It can be recognized
that the Commission does not thereby facilitate free, critical journalism. Rather,
the EU is planning “to assist [unter die
Arme zu greifen] the quality media” and thereby unashamedly create
financial and content dependencies. That is a dangerous intrusion upon freedom
of the press. This Action Plan is clearly counter to the decision of the
Federal Constitutional Court enjoining the state to a content neutrality duty
which forbids differentiation as to opinion content.
It
is grotesque to tell tales about “quality content” when what is meant is leftist
managed journalism in the tradition of Relotius, Leyendecker and Restle. The manner
today by which is demanded, at the shouts of the established parties, an
indifferent observation by the Constitution Defense, indicates the collapse of
the ostensible “Fourth Estate” which advertises itself as being “independent”.
And when the present, big political scandal, which may include the Federal
government, namely a possible embezzlement of millions by the current Finance
Minister, in the media at best receives a mention in the local Hamburg press in
the course of an election campaign, then one can today already surmise how far
has progressed the state dependency of the so-called quality media.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
