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The public broadcasters' quiet power grab

Should ARD & Co. be allowed to produce online newspapers?

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Jörg Luyken
Oct 26, 2024
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Dear Reader,

Cast your mind back a couple of decades to a world in which we still needed to turn on the radio or buy a newspaper to find out what was going on in the world.

It was a time when there was a clear delineation of power. The written word was the exclusive domain of private publishers; the radio waves were largely …

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