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Bild, Merkel and the culture wars: the inside story of Germany’s biggest tabloid – podcast

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The newspaper Bild has long poured vitriol on the country’s left-wingers and ‘do gooders’. But now it has a new target: the chancellor. By Thomas Meaney

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• This podcast was edited on 23 February 2021 to correct some mistranscriptions in respect of comments made by Julian Reichelt regarding a Bild interview with Friedrich Merz; the power of the newspaper; and Bild’s backing for Israel and the US government. It was also amended in respect of remarks made about press “mythology” surrounding Angela Merkel.

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