Metropolico

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Metropolico was a German internet portal from blu - Das Netzwerk eV based in Munich - Schwabing . It was founded as Blu-News in 2012 and renamed Metropolico in 2015 . It was run by Christian Jung, the Bavarian state chairman of the right-wing populist party Die Freiheit . The portal sees itself as " bourgeois , liberal and independent"; The majority of observers attributed it to the politically right-wing spectrum and sometimes located it in right-wing populism . In May 2017, Metropolico merged with the internet portal JouWatch of the columnist Thomas Böhm .

Content

In addition to the sections “News”, “Opinions” (guest authors included Hans-Peter Raddatz and Wolfgang Hübner), “Background”, “Regional”, “Focuses” and “Campaigns”, Metropolico also offered Metropolico TV . As interview and discussion partner, the portal was u. a. Jörg Urban (AfD, MdL Sachsen), Frauke Petry (AfD, MdL Sachsen), Alexander Gauland (AfD, MdL Brandenburg), Armin-Paul Hampel (AfD), Beatrix von Storch (AfD, MdEP for Germany), Thilo Sarrazin (SPD ), Ismail Tipi (CDU, MdL Hessen), Gerhard Eck (CSU, MdL Bavaria, State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior), Sebastian Frankenberger (ÖDP), Jan Timke (BIW, MdBB), Kathrin Oertel (PEGIDA) and the publicists Lars Hedegaard , André F. Lichtschlag and Felix Krautkrämer are available. Metropolico reported u. a. on Pegida , HoGeSa , the AfD , the Free Voters Frankfurt (now citizens of Frankfurt ) and on the subject of left-wing extremism . In April 2015, a report from Metropolico was the subject of a small request from CDU MP Peter Biesenbach in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament .

The Frankfurt police presented footage of Metropolico as evidence to the Frankfurt Administrative Court in the proceedings concerning the legality of the police operation at the Blockupy demonstration . According to a report by the Frankfurter Rundschau, the footage shows the clashes between demonstrators and officials after the police broke up the demonstration. In June 2013, the police union in Baden-Württemberg published a report by Metropolico in its union newspaper "GdP digital", in which the reporting by the Frankfurter Rundschau was sharply criticized. The report was later removed. According to the editor in charge, the tenor of the report corresponded to his opinion and that of his colleagues on site. But he did not do enough research to find out where the report came from.

reception

The Frankfurter Rundschau called Metropolico a spin-off product from the “leading Islam-hating blog PI-News ” and a “reactionary” portal. The portal's enemy images are also in this split-off Muslims, gays, liberals, Freemasons as well as the “mainstream” of the “EUSSR”. The daily accused the portal of agitation against Islam and the left as well as homophobia . According to an article in the daily newspaper by Sebastian Friedrich ( Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research ), the portal was "committed to the cause of the AfD ". The Internet portal Publikative.org of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation described Metropolico as “Islamhassblog”, “anti-Muslim” and “anti-Islamic”. According to Roland Sieber, Metropolico was one of the AfD's "unofficial party newspapers" like the weekly Junge Freiheit . According to the Amadeu Antonio Foundation's blog no-nazi.net , Metropolico was a platform that was known for conspiracy theories or “other forms of decomplexitarian agitation”. Der Spiegel described Metropolico as one of the largest portals of the national-conservative scene. The publicist Christoph Giesa described Metropolico as a “ right ” scene portal. According to the Wiener Zeitung , the portal sold right-wing populist content under the label "bourgeois - liberal - independent". The anti-fascist information, documentation and archive office in Munich (aida) also described Metropolico as right-wing populist. The social scientist Alexander Häusler ( research focus on right-wing extremism / neo-Nazism at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences ) called the Internet portal “right-wing”.

Legal dispute with the daily newspaper

The journalist Marlene Kaiser described Blu-News in the daily newspaper in 2013 as a “ neo-Nazi platform”. Metropolico took legal action against this designation. The Munich Regional Court judged the statement as an “inadmissible degradation and defamatory criticism”, which was not covered by the right to freedom of expression. The article also does not deal in any way with Blu-News (Metropolico), its goals or its thematic orientation. The court sentenced the daily newspaper to a fine of almost 1,060 euros and, in the event of an infringement, to a fine of up to 250,000 euros.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominik Hutter: Jerk to the far right . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 21, 2014, p. R3.
  2. ↑ a b Maik Baumgärtner, Jörg Diehl, Frank Hornig, Maximilian Popp, Sven Robel, Joerg Schindler , Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt , Steffen Winter: New German Wave . In: Der Spiegel . December 15, 2014, p. 23.
  3. ↑ Come together - JouWatch and Metropolico are now working together against the mainstream press! Metropolico, May 15, 2017
  4. ↑ Sabine am Orde: She smiles away at him . In: taz , June 20, 2015, p. 8.
  5. ^ Lars Geiges , Stine Marg , Franz Walter : Pegida. The dirty side of civil society? (= X texts ). Transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-3192-0 , pp. 11, 25.
  6. ↑ Answer of the state government to Minor Question 3372 of April 22, 2015 by MP Peter Biesenbach CDU (printed matter 16/8535): Security gaps in the Düsseldorf terrorist processes ?, North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament, printed matter 16/8775, May 27, 2015.
  7. ↑ Hanning Voigts: Strange Alliance Against Blockupy . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 4, 2013.
  8. ^ A b Stefan Behr: Police critic vilified . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , June 26, 2013.
  9. ↑ Jürn Kruse, Timo Reuter: A case of propaganda . In: taz , June 25, 2013, p. 18.
  10. ↑ Sebastian Friedrich : The reactionary middle class . In: taz , February 12, 2015, p. 12.
  11. ↑ Roland Sieber: From dancing racists and uniformed militias ( Memento from June 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). publikative.org , October 22, 2012; ders: AfD: Professors Party as a right-wing populist collective movement? . publikative.org , March 19, 2013; ders: Legal youth for Germany . publikative.org , March 15, 2013.
  12. ^ Roland Sieber: Professors as a spearhead, party as a collective movement . publikative.org , April 8, 2013.
  13. ↑ Enormous success story: Pegida in the social networks . Network against Nazis , February 12, 2015.
  14. ^ Liane Bednarz , Christoph Giesa : Germany is going crazy . The truth about the AfD . Carl Hanser Verlag (eBook), Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24894-6 , o. P.
  15. ↑ Alexander Dworzak: Victims like us . In: Wiener Zeitung , January 14, 2015, p. 5.
  16. ↑ Robert Andreasch: If the NPD is not noticed any further . Anti-fascist information, documentation and archive office Munich , June 2, 2012.
  17. ↑ Alexander Häusler : Decay or Establishment ?. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a party of right-wing populism. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 63 (2015) 9, pp. 741–758, here: p. 752.
  18. ^ Marlene Halser: Three arrests after attacks ( memento of July 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). taz.de , June 10, 2013.
  19. ↑ Newspaper defames blu-News ( memento from October 4, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), Metropolico from June 12, 2013, accessed on October 4, 2015.
  20. ↑ Conservative Internet portal prevails against "taz" . jungefreiheit.de , August 28, 2014.