Parallel Lives

by Wayne Hall Monday, Feb. 11, 2002 at 8:39 PM
halva_gr@yahoo.com

A comparison between two generations of media victims

This is the story of two men who ended up in prison for the crime of thinking that televiewers and newspaper readers have the right (perhaps the duty) to apply in practice what they are taught in principle.



The first man was a German, a house painter called Josef Bachmann. Bachmann was a reader of Bildzeitung, flagship of the sensation-mongering Springer press. In April 1968 Bildzeitung was leading Bachmann to believe that the most precious and painfully-gained attainments of German public life were under threat from a certain

Original: Parallel Lives