On the last Thursday appeared in Time His last column. Nevertheless, the fact that this will explode to the editorial team and will lead to an extremely unusual step to ensure cruel debate on social networks and other newspapers, this time no one saw this time, which was originally entrusted with the text.
Israeli disease is overwritten. In it, Biller deals with the pathological relations of many Germans with Israel from his point of view. He sees their “criminals” with a guilty conscience. The Biller means people like Marcus Lanz, who “want to condemn the Israelis as a medieval killer of children and criminals of a modern military.” Others, such as Tilo Jung or SPD politician Ralph Stegner, see Biller about a “pathological, mentally very stressful trip against Israel.”
“Yes, when it comes to Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu and strategically real, but inhuman blocking of hunger from Gaza or a purely defensive Iranian Iranian campaign, most Germans do not know fun,” Biller writes.
Even for Biller, solid text
He ends his text with a joke: the Israeli soldier goes to the doctor and says that he no longer feels like shooting from Arabs. The doctor replies that the soldier can stop immediately. “But I would not advise you,” the doctor says. “Even after our therapy.”
This is a hard column even for Maxim Biller. Shooting at the Arabs, even if it is a joke and “strategically real, but inhuman blocking of hunger from Gaza”, is also in the editorial office Time Open a lot of people.
Who these days in Time-Credaction belongs to a big agreement that the column should never have appeared. Due to what is currently happening in gas, this is insensitive. Some colleagues find the text painful. No one wants to speak openly. Many conversations cannot be given.
Editor -in Time Finally chose a radical step. Almost 24 hours after the text was published on the Internet, she again demonstrated this. Several compositions will not have standards Time They say that it corresponds to a “carefully thoughtful check of the editorial quality.”
Unusual step
To understand how unusual it is with Time If you want to reduce the text, you must recall the other two examples that caused the debate.
Than in the summer of 2018 Time-Tractors A Pro and Contra wrote about whether private sea salvation is legal, and this is under the heading “or should you leave it?” Actions, there was great indignation. The then deputy chief editor and director of the political department, Bernd Ulrich, apologized to Twitter, in the editorial blog, which he and his colleague wrote that this title is regulated. Nevertheless: the text stopped.
When the author Fabian Wolf in 2021 in Time Only about how he lives like a Jew in Germany, and then in 2023, that he now found out that he was not a Jew, there were doubts about other media. A Time He investigated, found contradictions in the text of Wolf and his own failure to verify the fact and documented it publicly. Finally, she presented the text notification of transparency and wrote that the text was published. But this text also stopped.
What distinguishes the Biller column from these two texts?
Assumptions about political origin
If someone follows the interpretation on social networks, in Time To observe. You can find evidence of this in the staff and what Time The last imprint. The fact that Biller is now shooting at the Arabs fits into your photo.
A World-Carper ULF Poschardt interprets the story the other way around. In guest post in Jewish general If he evaluates the decision to depict a column as a victory in his thoughtful left infancy of an online editorial team about the press of printsTimeField Zeitonline If the leading environment of the “new, political left side”, then Biller became the victim of “new censors”.
Who is with the editors TimeBoth on the Internet and the seals, they say, you notice: both theses fail.
A Time In the middle of what she calls Fusion: the editorial offices of the press and online should merge this year. From today, July 1, both editorial offices called Time. In the Berlin office Time Celebrate farewell ZeitonlineThe field that sounds like a simple tilt of the header is a huge process for the home. We are talking about issues of power, distribution of money, spots and posts.
Stunning
And these structural issues, some editors say this, connect a lot of time and effort. The constant overwhelming is – in addition to the statement about continuing to make good journalism.
The column, obviously, came out of sight at a very tense week of the merger of time
The column of Maxim Biller, obviously, was out of sight at the last very restless production week. If Time Thus, it officially reports that the “complex quality assurance” did not take the Biller column, this means the translation: the text has almost blurred. Colleagues, who have made objections against critical excerpts, were ignored.
Only some in the house are surprising that this happens with the text for debate in the Middle East. As in all editorial offices, the themes of Israel and Gaza are in Time controversial. Recently in the editorial team there was a pronunciation about the question of Time In your Israel, telling all the parties. Obviously, there are some in the editorial team, which gives the impression that the missing voices are more difficult to print. Others, however, reject this political measurement in a dispute about the Biller column.
The editor -in -chief chose a deputy
The question that follows such an error is how the editorial team copes with this? The editor -in -CHIEF decided to publish the text together, obviously, first of all, to meet with criticism in the house. In any case, Marcus Lantz did not ask for this.
The editorial team has both votes that find the right depression, as well as those who consider the subsequent removal to be wrong. The column can still be read, both in print TimeAs well as screenshots and archival versions on the Internet.
And they read it. Rarely there is a biller -column that was divided and discussed so much. Several authors who otherwise for Time Writing, now announced indignation, so as not to write for a sheet anymore or demand that their texts from the site Time be remote.
Maxim Biller still decided not to comment on publicly.
