Media
Germany is well supplied with British newspapers : in the larger cities it's relatively easy to pick up most of the London-printed editions on the same day, with the Financial Times having a particularly wide distribution. Some US papers , especially the International Herald Tribune and USA Today , are also readily obtainable. With a few exceptions, German newspapers tend to be highly regionalized, mixing local and international news. Only the liberal Frankfurter Rundschau and Munich's Suddeutsche Zeitung are distributed much outside their own areas. Berlin produces two reputable organs: the Tagespiegel , a good left-wing read, and the Greenish/alternative Tageszeitung , universally known as the Taz . Of the national daily papers, the two bestsellers come from the presses of the late, unlamented Axel Springer: Die Welt is a right-wing heavyweight, and the tabloid Bild a reactionary, sleazy and sensationalist rag. The Frankfurter Allgemeine is again conservative, appealing particularly to the business community, but follows a politically independent line. Germany has more magazines than any other country in Europe. The leftish weekly news and current affairs magazine Der Spiegel is the most in-depth magazine for political analysis and investigative journalism. Unless your German is fluent, though, it's a heavy and often difficult read. Further to the right, Die Zeit is a wider-ranging (and to learners of the language, easier-to-read) alternative; Focus is another influential weekly with a conservative slant. Stern is the most popular current affairs magazine, though its prestige took a tumble following its publication of the forged Hitler diaries and, more than a decade later, has still not entirely recovered. German television does not show the country at its best, though it has an undeniably varied output. Some of the more serious discussion programmes have a presentation style that is still reminiscent of the 1960s and early 1970s and might as well be broadcast on radio. Yet there are also plenty of derivatives of the banal game and chat shows characteristic of present-day American and British daytime TV, while in the late evenings pornography that leaves nothing to the imagination is often broadcast. There are two main national channels, ARD and ZDF , plus regional stations run by individual Lander and a number of commercial channels. The Austrian, Swiss, Dutch, Danish and Polish networks can be picked up in the areas they border. Many houses and hotels are equipped with satellite or cable TV ; in such cases, you'll have access to a choice of British and American channels: CNN is particularly ubiquitous. The only English-speaking radio channels are the BBC World Service (90.2FM), the British Forces station BFBS (98.8FM) and the dire American Armed Forces radio station AFN (87.6FM), which combines American music charts with military news. These should continue broadcasting for at least as long as the troops remain.
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