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Article: Bloodletting at `Der Spiegel'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 30, 1994
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THERE have been leading articles, television programmes, and front-
page tabloid headlines - and all over an internal crisis at a
magazine.
The dramas that have erupted in recent weeks at Germany's leading
weekly magazine, Der Spiegel - including the sudden sacking of the
editor - are more than a storm in a media teacup. Der Spiegel may
bounce back. This week's issue, [26 Dec] the first produced by the
new editor, Stefan Aust, does not even refer to the bloodletting. But
the identity crisis can be seen as reflecting a change of direction
in German society itself.
The immediate trigger was the publication of a commentary on
intervention in Bosnia, which opponents within the magazine ...