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Schirrmacher, Frank
4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Frank Schirrmacher on the iPad as a turning point
Apple's iPad could have an impact both on people's online communication habits as well as on the ideologies and metaphors of the internet, writes Frank Schirrmacher in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "We need to understand that almost all technological innovations in the digital sector have led to cognitive changes. They have resulted in boundless creativity as long as the systems were open and everyone could participate in their evolution. But the democratisation of the computer now shows that most people wants things to be simpler and don't want to drown in the flood of data and commands. So convenience, transparency, and freedom from viruses come first even if it means having a new central government. Monitoring that government is above all the task of the media. Steve Jobs' iPad signals the transition from the revolutionary phase in computer technology to a restoration period. ... Whatever becomes of the gadget the Apple founder has presented, it tells us nothing other than that the hardware changes the content. The tool changes our way of thinking."
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More from the press review on the subject » Online media, » Corporations, » Philosophy, » U.S., » Global
Journalism according to political affiliation
Frank Schirrmacher writes in the Sunday issue of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that if the ruling Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and its sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) get their way the contract of Nikolaus Brender, chief editor of the German public-service TV channel ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen), will not be extended when it expires in 2010: "If they manage to get rid of this highly qualified chief editor the party political conditioning of the next generation of ZDF journalists will be genetically fixed. … In an age when press freedom is under pressure all over the world, the independence of the public discourse industries and their employees is of enormous importance. And what's more: in times when all groups and parties can use the Internet for their own purposes their involvement in public service committees is at the very least questionable. In view of the public ownership tendencies prevalent in society as a whole and the crisis of the traditional media, those who allow them to practice the kind of personnel policy according to party affiliation that was customary in the old Republic are paving the way for a state-controlled consciousness industry."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Audiovisual Media, » Media policy, » Germany
What to do with young criminals
FAZ publisher Frank Schirrmacher weighs in on Germany's polemical debate, urging that "the mix of youth criminality and Muslim fundamentalism" be correctly named, as "the closest thing to the deadly ideology of the 20th century." Schirrmacher argues: "Recently, Germans have been called 'pig-eaters' during baseless attacks, which already moves the conflict into the sphere of a cultural war. You can't take such comments lightly because they are developing as an evolutionary stage in the parallel worlds of our society. The second and third generation of disenfranchised immigrants has turned parts of Berlin into ungovernable zones, according to their mayors. ... The lack of integration of immigrants, which is our own fault, is now making itself felt among those born here: the majority is falling apart, through the selective slaughter of a few."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Germany
Stefan Aust on the RAF phenomenon
Stefan Aust, chief editor of the German weekly Der Spiegel and author of a book about the Red Army Faction (RAF), which was responsible for carrying out a series of terrorist attacks in the 1970s, talks about the RAF phenomenon in an interview with Christian Geyer and Frank Schirrmacher. "Normally we're prevented from becoming extreme in the terrorist sense - by a relatively intact social system and a relatively intact economical system, by the fact that the police are responsible for establishing law and order and no one wants to go to prison. The members of the RAF were forced to create the state of war they constantly invoked... That meant going underground and looking at the world from the observation slits of a tank and regarding the police as the enemy, 'the pigs', as [RAF terrorist] Ulrike Meinhof would say. So they got caught up in the delusion that the society in which they lived was fascist and that the Federal Republic of Germany differed only slightly from the Third Reich. They plunged themselves into a situation which allowed them to fabricate a state of emergency."
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