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Clauß, Ulrich
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4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
TV boycott of the Olympics?
Ulrich Clauß comments on the announcement by the head of sport of a French television station that he would not cover the Beijing Olympic Games if images or reports are subject to censorship: "The question of using a media boycott as a weapon against Chinese authoritarianism is just as explosive for those in power in China as the dispute over a total boycott of the games by individual national teams. This is because the Olympic spectacle depends on the presence of the global media for its entire financing. ... It would be nice to hear similarly blunt words from Germany's public television broadcasters. Perhaps such an action could even be coordinated at an international level. After all, coordinated action is the usual approach in the purchase of broadcasting rights. Germany's public broadcasters should have learned their lesson after all their dithering regarding the professional cycling doping scandals and formulate clear conditions this time."
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More from the press review on the subject » Audiovisual Media, » Sport, » France, » China
The doping scandal in German cycling
"Despite being virtually surrounded by government and other tax-financed control and funding authorities, a wandering circus of cycling drug consumers has been in business since the mid-1990s," comments an appalled Ulrich Clauß. "First one should mention the oath of manifestation in government-subsidised sports medicine, where nonetheless over the years organised crime was able take hold... Then there's the question of the role of a - previously state-owned - now partially state-owned telecommunications company, which likewise financed this drug circus for years on end... And thirdly there's the government's 'media partners'... The interplay of state institutions aimed at promoting drug-enhanced performances in sport is referred to as state doping. This is what happened in the case of the GDR, for example. So how are we to describe what has been going on over the past ten years in German professional cycling?"
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More from the press review on the subject » Health and Medicine, » Sport, » Germany
Estonia is looking for a new coalition
The Estonians were the first nation in the world to be able to cast their votes through the Internet. 30,000 of the 930,000 citizens entitled to vote in the country used this option, Ulrich Clauss reports. "The most important difference with respect to conventional electoral procedures is that the voter was free to change his decision as often as he wanted until voting came to an end. Naturally Estonians can also cast their votes at conventional polling stations - in this case the 'e-vote' option is automatically cancelled. A law making the vote through the Internet possible was passed with a narrow majority in mid 2006... The laws for electronic voting are not the only thing that has firmly placed the Baltic state among those EU countries that are pioneering e-government."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Estonia
An Oscar for the heroes of the fall of the Wall
The German film "The Lives of Others" directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has won the Oscar for best foreign-language film. Ulrich Clauss sees this as "cause for unbridled joy": "We should not forget its impressive contribution to confronting the second dictatorship in Germany, its skilfully cool analysis of the GDR's Ministry of State Security. For the first time a German film that does not deal indirectly with the Nazi dictatorship is receiving worldwide recognition. This is a turning point the importance of which cannot be overestimated... On the one hand it confers respectability on a broad subject matter that opens up new options for all the country's filmmakers. On the other this Oscar pays international tribute to the heroes of the fall of the Wall in 1989 - heralding the acceptance of a new image of Germany, that of a successful revolution: innovative works from the country of perpetrators."
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More from the press review on the subject » Film, » History, » Germany
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