Action of the “time”editors: the Supreme court has of media-critical Satire … – THE WORLD

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Satire is allowed to exaggerate and distort. The Hamburger “time”journalist Josef Joffe and Jochen Bittner to accept, therefore, a Satire of the ZDF-Show “die Anstalt” about their Connections to Lobby associations, held on Tuesday, the Federal court of justice (BGH). The judges in Karlsruhe reject the injunctions of the journalists. The stumbling block is the broadcast of an “institution”-broadcast on April 29. In April of 2014. The presenters, Max Uthoff and Claus von Wagner, well-known journalists and their Connections to political associations and, thus, possible conflicts of interest had taken on the grain.

The co-editor of the weekly newspaper “die Zeit”, Josef Joffe, and “time”editor Jochen Bittner found the post Laugh. The remark of the satirist, that “The time” was probably only a week, because the journalists need to spend a lot of time for your Lobby, Connections, and also to de-escalate. The journalists complained of to cease and desist. In the contribution will inaccurate claims that they are members, boards of Directors or Advisory committees in the eight or three organizations that deal with political-security issues.

While the higher regional court (OLG) Hamburg held for the plaintiffs, had the satirist from the BGH right. On closer examination of the contribution of out body that had not been made the complained of statements at all, said the Supreme court judges. In Essence, to be included in the contribution, only the observation that there are Connections between the plaintiffs and the shipments mentioned organizations. This was the case. The content of a satirical contribution, it is in a special way to the overall context.