Freedom of press

After the NS Regime, the allied states reorganized the foundation of the German press to adapt to the role model of British and American freedom of press. Thus, British and American media are widely recognized in Germany. British newspapers are more numerous and diverse in comparison to German newspapers. There are at least ten independent quality newspapers that are recognized by a large audience in the UK alone. Besides, they reflect a lot more their readers political views as, for example, German quality newspapers. The most renown German daily newspapers have become less controversial over the years and, today, it is more difficult to divide readers into liberal or conservative ideologies (e.g. Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). Furthermore, American and especially British press is known to be more intense when it comes to reporting about famous people and more polarized. The Internet with its new digital formats opens further sources of information, that are in addition easily accessible to most Germans. Therefore, I believe that American and British media have recently become more prevalent in German culture. Besides, I feel that British media might be more credible to the Germans than American news reporting, e.g. the serious BBC news towards scandalous Fox News.