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News of the day: How to anger readership and editors at the same time

2020-09-16T16:38:31.561Z


Should journalists call for certain politicians to be elected? How are Europe and the USA dealing with the climate crisis? And what do the Apple updates bring? That is the situation on Wednesday evening.


1.

Europe sees green, America orange

Icon: enlargePhoto: Francisco Seco / AP

Today

, Commission President

Ursula von der Leyen gave

a speech on the State of Europe

(not related by marriage or related to this newsletter)

and tried to swear the EU to more climate protection and digitization.

Their target: to reduce emissions by more than half by 2030 (55 instead of the previously planned 40 percent): "Anyone who listens to von der Leyen like this must get the impression that the corona chaos, economic crisis, internal combustion engines and dead spots are only a short one annoying intermediate steps are into the beautiful, new and above all green European world ", comments my colleague Peter Müller.

The only question is: how can this be done? 

The

German industry

reacted promptly - with overload statements and risk warnings.

Everything is kind of difficult, just not too strict rules.

Something like the tenor.

Perhaps the mood of the industry representatives can be lightened by reading a text by my colleague Stefan Schultz: He once declined how an ecological republic of Germany could function - with hydrogen pipelines, textile cement and green steel.

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Focus on SPIEGEL.de

"Von der Leyen prefers to talk about the big picture,"

reports Peter.

You may accuse it of not proposing too much concrete information - but I am glad that in Europe it is predominantly politicians who hold offices who at least recognize climate change as a problem.

What cannot be said of the USA.

There,

climate change is

showing

its face - or rather its grimace,

on the US west coast

.

"The fires in California, Oregon, Washington have the potential to remove the greatest obstacle in the fight against the climate crisis: its invisibility," analyzes my colleague Kurt Stukenberg.

In order to illustrate the extent of the disaster, my colleague Maximilian Popp from the foreign affairs department suggested that a focus on the topic be presented on SPIEGEL.de.

Colleagues from all departments and departments have contributed to this. 

  • Here you will find the opening text: The catastrophe is here

2. The agony with the election recommendations

The US president's disdain for science

has now led science to strike back, at least symbolically: For the first time in its 175-year history, the US trade magazine "Scientific American" is making an election recommendation - for the Democratic challenger Joe Biden.

"It's not easy for us," says the editorial for the October issue of the magazine.

However, the evidence and science showed "that Donald Trump did serious harm to the US and its people - because he rejects evidence and science."

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Hopes from "herd mentality"

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ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP

Such election recommendations, called endorsements, are unusual in Germany.

But one newspaper broke with this reluctance - the "Financial Times Deutschland" (FTD).

Unfortunately, she fell victim to the abocalypse years ago.

Now I'm fortunate to have many former FTD people among my colleagues - including our news chief Stefan Weigel, with whom I share an office or, due to the corona, have an intensive video chat relationship.

Probably nobody in Germany is as familiar with endorsements as Stefan.

He says:

"If you want to split your readership and your editorial team as quickly and sustainably as possible, then an election recommendation in Germany is the best way. Readers are angry because they don't want any journalists to tell them what to vote for; editors and editors are mad at each other for failing to understand why each other is so persistent in advocating blatantly stupid and wrong positions.

A well-made election recommendation is not a clumsy ideological commitment to a party-political camp.

In the best case, an editorial team will analyze the programs and staff of the most important parties over a long period of time, scrutinize their strengths and weaknesses, the ability to form coalitions and whether your promises not only sound good, but also have a chance of being implemented later.

At the end there is a recommendation from the editors as to which voting decision would be best for the overall interests of a state or a municipality in the current situation.

It saves the readers from having to dig through basic programs themselves.

A service that

has long been common

in the

USA

, but difficult to provide in Germany.

Unfortunately."

If you want to please Stefan, tell him what you think about it.

In any case, in the US, an overwhelming number of editorial offices support Joe Biden - just as they supported Hillary Clinton in 2016.

  • Read more about Trump and Science here: The Ignorance

3.

You have a software update

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Cook, what's coming in from outside?

Photo: --- / dpa

I claim humanity is divided into two groups:

  • those who enjoy regularly updating the software on their phone and computer.

  • And those who hate it.

In a household I know, the member of the first group then has to warn the members of the second group not to use outdated, unsafe programs.

For the

Apple

users in both groups, a lot will change soon, as my colleague Matthias Kremp from the Netzwelt department explains here.

Because the group not only presented new

smartwatches

and

iPads

last night

, it also released a series of updates for its

operating systems

.

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The clock part

Photo: Apple

Overall, Matthias thought the product show was a success,

but missed the live feeling - due to the corona, the whole thing took place as a video stream, a bit more boring than usual, as he says: "I was most impressed by the Watch SE, which actually has everything that the Watch 5 did well, just cheaper. "

He is disappointed that the Fitness + streaming service does not exist in Germany - a kind of pre-gymnastics service on the screen.

"It looks like it could have got me off the sofa. I will probably stay seated that way," says Matthias.

  • Read more here: This brings Apple's updates

What else is important today

  • Suspected right-wing extremist chat group of the NRW police exposed:

    According to SPIEGEL information, police officers from the Presidium in Essen have spread extremely right-wing messages via a messenger.

    Interior Minister Reul speaks of a "disgrace".

  • Kramp-Karrenbauer clears up a dispute over female ranks:

    There will be no female ranks in the Bundeswehr for the foreseeable future.

    Minister Kramp-Karrenbauer decided not to pursue the idea any further for the time being.

    There had been protests beforehand.

  • Nurse describes catastrophic conditions in US migrant

    camps

    :

    Lack of corona protection, medically unnecessary operations on the uterus: a nurse makes serious allegations against a camp for immigrants in Georgia.

    Now US authorities are investigating the matter.

My favorite interview today: Lauterbach about the pandemic

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Kay Nietfeld / dpa

Virologist Christian Drosten is probably the face of this Corona year

.

But which politicians come to mind?

Söder and Spahn, of course, Merkel somehow.

And an SPD man without a government office, but with medical training -

Karl Lauterbach

.

My colleague Katherine Rydlink spoke to him about the rising numbers and his assessment of the pandemic.

"It showed how much he apparently trusts the Germans' personal responsibility and discipline,"

says Katherine.

Lauterbach was confident that people will for the most part adhere to the AHA rules more on their own, "if we in Germany notice that the intensive and deaths in neighboring countries are rising again".

Katherine is less confident: "I'm rather afraid we're too reckless because we got off so lightly in the first wave."

There are still many who do not have a Corona case in their family or friends.

"The virus is still invisible to them - the measures, on the other hand, are clearly noticeable and have now been going on for a very long time."

  • Read the whole conversation here: "I expect an increase in deaths in six to eight weeks"

What we recommend today at SPIEGEL +

  • This is what the Ecorepublic of Germany could look like:

    Europe's CO₂ emissions should drop radically.

    What does this mean for German companies?

    Outlook for a more sustainable republic - with hydrogen pipelines, textile cement and green steel.

  • What working parents need to know in the Corona autumn:

    How long can parents stay at home if the daycare or school closes again?

    Who pays if you are absent from your job because of the children - and how much money is there?

    The most important questions and answers about labor law.

  • "I immediately questioned my engagement":

    Even at 30, a world can collapse when parents split up.

    Those affected tell how they experienced the situation and what helped them to process it.

  • Cholesterol-lowering drugs can make you sick:

    many doctors prescribe statins to reduce the risk of heart disease.

    The cardiologist Robert DuBroff from the University of New Mexico thinks this is wrong in many cases - and recommends a simple strategy.

  • The big financial data analysis for the Bundesliga start:

    How much money do clubs spend on staff?

    How much do you get from marketing and sponsorship?

    And how does that affect the outcome of the championship?

    A look at the numbers.

Which is not so important today

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Danny Moloshok / REUTERS

  • Troubled mode:

    What many parents want from their children,

    Kim Kardashian

    , 39, is doing right now - she says she is on strike on social media, where she is otherwise very busy.

    For apparently 24 hours, she freezes her accounts to take a

    stand against hatspeech and fake news

    .

    As the last message for the time being, their 188 million followers could read: "I think it's great that I can get in direct contact with you via Instagram and Facebook, but I can't watch these platforms continue to enable the spread of hate, propaganda and misinformation - created by groups that want to divide and drive America apart. "

Typo of the day

, corrected in the meantime: "Most Putin fans can be seen as useful dachshunds for Russian influence in liberal democrats, that is, wherever free debate is possible at all."

Cartoon of the day:

election campaign

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Klaus Stuttmann

And tonight?

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The other apple

Photo: APPLE CORPS / Apple Corps via REUTERS

Listen to the Beatles

.

Always a good idea, but it just occurred to me because I read that a new book about the band's last days is about to be published.

Paul McCartney was already gone when the album "Let It Be" was released in 1970.

George Harrison had left the sessions again and again during production, John Lennon described them as "hell" - but the album they recorded was one of their greatest successes, but also their last, for the Beatles.

With this in mind: Get Back!


Heartily

Yours Oliver Trenkamp

Here you can order the "Lage am Abend" by email.

Source: spiegel

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