Journalists watch
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| Blog | |
| languages | German , English , French , Spanish |
| operator | Journalistenwatch eV - Association for media criticism and counter-public |
| editorial staff | Thomas Boehm |
| On-line | 2011 (currently online) |
| https://www.journalistenwatch.com/ | |
Journalistenwatch (also called JouWatch ) is an internet blog that primarily deals with reporting by other media.
In terms of content, it is viewed as right-wing populist to right-wing extremist and critical of Islam . The right-wing extremist “ Identitarian Movement ” was regularly advertised in articles on Journalistenwatch . Another central topic on the homepage are cases of foreign crime with references to articles in other media. The website describes itself as a "portal for media criticism and counter-public ".
Editing and operator
Editor-in-chief of the blog, founded in 2011, was Thomas Böhm ; At the beginning of 2018 he passed this position on to his wife Marilla Slominski. The reach of the blog is given with around one million readers per month. The blog is operated by the association Journalistenwatch eV - Association for Media Criticism and Counter-Publicity based in Meißen (until 2017 in Berlin, until 2019 in Jena).
The association was not considered a non-profit organization from 2012 to 2016 because the Berlin district court demanded improvements to the statutes for this status. With the move to Jena in 2017, the administrative responsibility changed and the non-profit status was granted. In June 2019 the status was revoked.
Authors
The publicists Akif Pirinçci and Vera Lengsfeld published texts there, as did the publisher Götz Kubitschek and the then Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache . A video format by the spokesman for Identitarians in Austria, Martin Sellner , will also be published.
classification
Nico Schmidt describes Journalistenwatch at that time as an influential platform of the New Right , which has established itself on the "far right of the Internet [...] in the orbit of the AfD , somewhere between Epoch Times , Unzensuriert.at and Politically Incorrect " and partly from the USA funded. The tenor of the published texts fluctuates between criticism of Islam and “cozy AfD right-wing populism ”. The platform is declared pro-Israel.
According to the taz , the blog, like Epoch Times and Anonymous News, is one of the websites that are most successful on Facebook . Preferred topics are therefore " hostility to refugees, racism , Merkel hatred and the AfD". The Jungle World reported that the blog had just as Politically Incorrect in a campaign against the Silvio-Meier price involved.
The Evangelical News Agency Idea reported that Journalistenwatch reportedly filed charges for inciting people and insulting the EKD Reformation Ambassador Margot Käßmann after she sharply attacked the AfD at the 2017 Kirchentag and declared its demand for an "increase in the birth rate of the local population" correspond to the "little Aryan paragraph of the National Socialists: Two German parents, four German grandparents - you know where the brown wind is really blowing from".
In October 2017 , according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Journalistenwatch claimed that the DGB in Munich was making its rooms "available to enemies of the constitution" when an anti- fascist congress on right- wing terrorism was held in the trade union building . The "campaign" with the participation of the German Police Union had initially led to the DGB terminating the use of the rooms. After massive protests within the trade union federation, the decision was reversed.
In 2019, Daniel Fiß, head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement Germany, spoke in a detailed interview on the Journalistenwatch portal .
Journalistenwatch is financially supported by the US think tank Middle East Forum , chaired by historian Daniel Pipes and promoting the networking of the New Right in Europe.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Strache and the stolen Turkish letter from the web , kurier.at , April 24, 2017.
- ↑ Esther Scheiner: Journalistenwatch the new right-wing platform that pretends to be non-profit. In: Israel News . November 15, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
- ^ A b c Nico Schmidt: "Journalistenwatch": The America Connection of the New Right , Zeit Online , December 17, 2017.
- ↑ "JouWatch" right portal threatens withdrawal of charitable status , Tagesspiegel, January 10, 2018th
- ↑ tagesschau.de, Bayerischer Rundfunk: Dispute over AfD Foundation: right-wing pullers behind the "Stresemann" project | BR.de . January 12, 2018 ( archive.org [accessed July 23, 2018]).
- ↑ Julian Feldmann, Robert Bongen: Carrier association no longer non-profit. tagesschau.de, July 18, 2019, accessed June 20, 2020.
- ^ A b Christian Fuchs: "Journalistenwatch": agitation without a donation receipt. In: The time. July 18, 2019, accessed July 19, 2019 .
- ↑ July 2017 in right-wing media: The Social Stars , taz.de , August 8, 2017
- ↑ Small talk with Christoph Kopke, political scientist, about right-wing agitation against the Silvio Meier Prize: "Mockery of the GDR Opposition" , Jungle World , 23 November 2017
- ↑ journalists Watch: filed a criminal complaint against Käßmann sedition , idea.de , May 31, 2017
- ↑ Paulchen-Panther-Video: State security investigates after the Antifa Congress against Pegida , Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 6, 2017
- ^ Munich: DGB invites Antifa - trade union federation disputes planned congress , Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 19, 2017
- ^ DGB-Haus in Munich: Antifa-Kongress: Unloading without invitation ( Memento from February 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), br24.de , October 19, 2017
- ↑ Antifa Congress in Munich: “It's not about how best to beat up a Nazi” www.sueddeutsche.de, November 5, 2017
- ↑ Alexander Fröhlich: Provocation with a new West TV tweet: Maaßen posts a hate report from a right-wing extremist medium. www.tagesspiegel.de, July 14, 2019
- ^ Stresemann Foundation received money from right-wing US financiers , Zeit Online , December 22, 2017