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Angela Merkel in the ARD program »color confess«, February 2, 2021
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You may now expect a political commentary on the appearance of the Chancellor in the ARD special program »Confess your color«, but I'll say right away, it will be a Merkel text for me.
So that you don't exaggerate that.
But a very important one.
I can say for myself that I have learned a lot, everyone else has also learned something.
What did we learn?
We heard the Chancellor speak, the one who makes the Corona policy, yesterday too, together with the Bavarian Prime Minister and the Mayor of Berlin.
And overall it is a huge achievement that one year after the outbreak of the pandemic we have several elected politicians who are trying to alleviate the corona pandemic, and the political representatives have told us how they are working with the highest intensity, so to speak very high risk, because there are many components in such a corona policy and everything has to go hand in hand.
The political representatives have told us how they work at the highest intensity, so to speak.
And that's why we on the journalistic side now also have to adapt, we cannot make rigid reporting, we have to model it.
But we agree that we want to do the maximum amount of effective corona policy reporting.
We now have a framework for this Merkel text that we can use for orientation.
And for some it may have been going on for a long time, but I think that is also in the nature of things.
We know that even if not a single new thought is formulated here, everyone will be offered an offer to click on other texts by the end of this text, i.e. at the bottom.
We have also sorted the articles that will be found below: First the younger ones that are closely related to the topic.
And from this framework we can now work out a dynamic plan, you, dear readers, and I.
Together.
As for the wait for content, I want to say the following: The politicians have said they want to do the politics themselves.
As for the wait for content, I want to say the following: The politicians have said they want to do the politics themselves.
There are different methods.
Are you waiting for the material to arrive?
We always said, and that is the important thing: We will get what we were promised in the first paragraph.
But there are, some will say, 354 words since the beginning of this text, others say: first. And then it will increase, and at the end of the text, if the computer does not crash or something similar, we will be given a text offer to everyone to have.
Now it is often said that a comment on Merkel's appearance in the ARD special program “Confess color” has long appeared in other media, and I am asked: What went wrong with SPIEGEL?
So, I think, by and large, nothing went wrong.
And that you get what was promised.
There is of course the question in the room: Why are others faster?
Of course that worries you.
And you have to see that the comments were published immediately in certain other media.
We decided to give ours to the proofreading department first.
That wasn't a mistake.
We depend on trust in our orthographic skills, and I am in favor of us doing it with the necessary thoroughness.
And that's why it takes time.
But we have to get there with our own production capacities, and a large part of the editorial team has already finished work, and the other editorial offices are practically not exporting any exclusive information.
And that's why I think that's the right way to go.
If the number of characters in this article is increased, then we must do everything together to ensure that we do not run out of letters and punctuation marks in the end.
If the number of characters in this article is increased, then we must do everything together to ensure that we do not run out of letters and punctuation marks in the end.
But we'll manage that too, that's what we decided.
Internationally, Chinese characters or the Cyrillic alphabet are also used for writing. Everyone is welcome to us, but we only publish those who come through our proofreading department.
I am fighting for trust for this Merkel text.
And I already wrote it at the beginning: At the end of this text we will be able to make everyone an offer, and I find that an important message and message.
At the last editorial conference we discussed something - I believe - important that we want to develop a perspective on an end to this Merkel text, together: author and editor.
That will certainly not be determined by the content, but by the time, the question of when the text is over, what about further paragraphs.
Exiting this text would not be the solution now.
We need a sustainable way out of this Merkel text.
Fortunately, the article has already been read this far, and I would like to say thank you for that, because it is your contribution, dear readers.
It's a long stretch, it's the toughest stretch now, the last few paragraphs, I've said that many times.
Exiting from this text would not be the solution now, nor would falling asleep, otherwise you would have to start all over again later.
We need a sustainable way out of this Merkel text.
It now depends on us.
If we bring down the remaining reading time, also by actually adhering to the rules, not skipping any paragraphs, then we can go further down.
The only risk we have at the moment is that we might still get something in between, that new information could thwart our plans, which would then have to be described.
If you would otherwise finish reading faster, you may finish reading more slowly now.
We are now at a total of 860 words, which is a good performance, we have not been there for a long time, but that does not mean that we have control over this Merkel text again.
Every word counts now, I don't know where we are in the next paragraph.
And that's why I ask all readers to hold on for a while.
Of course we want to go back there so that you can read a more interesting text, that's your right, we want to go back there.
Of course we want to go back there so that you can read a more interesting text, that's your right, we want to go back there.
But at the moment it is still the case that even if someone is already bored, others may not want to continue reading.
As long as this is not clarified, we cannot link any informative or interesting texts at all.
But then we'll make an offer.
But I have to say a "but" to it, now he's writing "but" again, but if Merkel did say something new, then this Merkel text would be presented differently again.
But I can promise people if they approach with the attitude that we can defeat this Merkel text, if we don't let it wear us down, if we hold out for a while, then things will get better.
And it'll get better soon, and just a few more words, and it's over.
Thank you very much, Chancellor.
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