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...months, left-wing students have been staging riotous demonstrations against the newspapers of Germany's No. 1 press entrepreneur, Axel Springer. In his pugnacious newsmagazine Der Spiegel, Rudolf Augstein has called for a "lex Springer" to cut the publisher down to size. And a government commission recently warned that a publisher as big as Springer controlled too much of Germany's press for democratic comfort...
Sensitive to the outcry, Springer last week went part way toward satisfying his critics. In a surprise move, he sold five of his magazines. Das Neue Blatt, a gossip weekly with a circulation of 1,140,000, was bought for $7.5 million by Heinrich Bauer, Germany's second largest publisher. A small printing and publishing concern, Weitpert, paid about $19 million for the four other publications...
Despite his grand gesture, Springer did not appease all his critics. The publisher, complained Columnist Otto Kohler in Der Spiegel, has "satisfied, in a formal sense, the recommendations of the press commission without touching the basis of his political influence." In other words, Springer still controls close to 40% of Germany's newspaper circulation. He also keeps two radio and TV magazines and a sports publication...
...them had been shot in Berlin? I see diverse ingredients in our students' attitude toward violence. Of romanticism I see no trace. Also: Is society's strength measured by the volume of tough talk emanating from (mostly confused) officials? You state: "The radical students charge that Springer has manipulated public opinion in order to create a repressive society and an atmosphere of hate against them." Not only radical students charge that. Almost everybody I know does. Some liberal politicians do so publicly. And most German editorial writers and columnists do. Unless, of course, Herr Springer owns their paper...
...radical students charge that Springer has manipulated public opinion in order to create a repressive, Fascist-style society in West Germany and an atmosphere of hate against them. Even before the Dutschke incident, the most popular lapel buttons among radical students was Enteignet Springer-Dispossess Springer. In response to the wide-scale attacks against Springer's plants, Bild Am Sonntag, his big Sunday paper, vowed: "No terror will bend us." His readers seemed to like what they read. Despite all the efforts of radical students to stop the distribution of his papers, they enjoyed last week the best sales...