Guest
The warmongering of European media continues unabated, driving the entire continent into a suicidal spiral of madness—one that can only be halted by common sense or a nuclear winter. “Virtue journalism” plays an especially insidious role. The self-righteous scribes in the editorial offices produce narratives of friend vs. foe that is as grotesque as it is disastrous and false. Yet, the epistemic bubble of these do-gooders feeds itself and is externally reinforced by Washington’s geopolitical interests. To discuss the media problem in Europe, I have with me today Dr. Dieter Reinisch, the new editor-in-chief of the Austrian magazine International.
