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I don't know how we came up with the voice of Heilbronn when I was sitting with friends at the weekend. But it was suddenly an issue, with everyone agreeing that it was far too expensive, especially since — if you put aside the advertising and the well-intentioned contributions from clubs and the like — it is becoming thinner and thinner in the truest sense of the word word. You just have to be able to afford the Heilbronn voice.
The only local “alternative” is the city newspaper, which you can only get if you are willing to throw away the Echo advertising leaflet free of charge. The funny thing is that the deliverers are convinced that the echo is the newspaper and that the city newspaper is the advertising insert. As the person responsible for the city newspaper, you could certainly give some thought to this.
So it is not surprising that in addition to my better half and Hans Müller I too belong to the avowed readers of the New York Times, because the price-performance ratio is right there. Even if Alain Finkielkraut These, like Le Monde, are referred to as “Pravdas”. But that's probably the fundamental problem with newspapers, that they can't please everyone.
But today I got a statement from Spencer Bokat Lindell (New York Times) particularly liked and made curious about today's newspaper reading.
A single death is a tragedy, the saying goes, while a million deaths is just a statistic. But a handful of deaths that turn out to be murders, committed in serial fashion? Well, for many, that's entertainment.
Since the advent of the printing press, people have nursed a morbid fascination for reading about humanity's capacity for evil. But in the past decade or so, true crime — that once relatively niche genre of storytelling that spins real accounts of wrongdoing into narrative gold — has become a cultural behemoth: Sales of true-crime books in the United States have skyrocketed. In the world of documentaries, true crime is now both the most in-demand and the fastest-growing genre. When I checked my podcast app late last week, four of the five top charting shows were about murder.
What emotional hunger is satisfying all this ravenous consumption of true crime? And in the satisfying, are we making our minds — and our politics — sick?
food for thought
The latest book by Alain Finkielkraut "A la premiere personne’ (2019) serves as an example to remind us of what happens when Europe is misinterpreted and designed the way we federalists had imagined it from the start.
A “false Europe” undoubtedly leads to a European neo-nationalism that rejuvenates the old nationalisms and resurrects them from the ashes of the great wars. Even Alain Finkielkraut makes friends with the nation states, constructs that actually no longer exist, since they can no longer be reconciled with their “national peoples”.
I would like to have Alain Finkielkraut asked why he despairs of the very own European idea; he probably sees further and has recognized that our politicians, in their great failure, have buried them long ago.
Finkielkraut's book is entitled in German "I am not silent: philosophical notes at the moment(2021). with Benedict Neff effect Alain Finkielkraut in the New Zurich newspaper (1.11.2021) talked about his book.
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In principle, I am in favor of expanding all infrastructure, including power cables. However, it would be better if one could bring oneself back to viewing infrastructure as a state task and not misusing it to maximize profits for private companies.
With the new one Power line Germany – United Kingdom it is now to be feared that we will have all of our coal and gas-fired power stations, including some brand new ones, running XNUMX hours a day just to be able to sell electricity to the British.
It has never been a good idea — see also pig fattening — for a few entrepreneurs to exploit their own environment and nature for export profits, to run them down completely and to redistribute all costs among all citizens. It is now even to be feared that our very successful economic model will soon also export our last groundwater reserves abroad.
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Together for Heilbronn — Evangelische Allianz Heilbronn
"As leaders, we are not only concerned with the healthy development of our communities, but we see ourselves as co-creators of the community. Infected by the generosity of God, we want to contribute with our possibilities as churches in our society. With the potential of the voluntary commitment of our members, we want to promote togetherness in our city - worth living, meaningful and peaceful."
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alfred wegener
