Bild blues + Merkel the great

Dear Reader,

• The head of Germany’s most powerful media empire, the company that publishes Bild Zeitung, you will be surprised to hear is a hot-headed, opinionated sort of chap. In internal company emails, Axel Springer boss Mathias Döpfner says things like “east Germans are either fascists or communists” or Angela Merkel was “hammering the last nail into…