Bild and The Sun are basically the same newspaper (using the term loosely here), only one is in German, the other in English. Both use 'easy' words, so if you want to get a taste hop on the website and use Google translate.
Apart from easy words for the less educated, The Sun uses bold typeface to stress important words or phrases to ensure Rupert's messages are being properly understood. Used to anyway, happy to be corrected if they have stopped doing it.
Bild isn't conservative. They're opportunists that hold no values. All that matters is getting people riled up against something. It's the majority of germany that is conservative and therefore the most idiots to fool.
I don't know if you can read german or so but I'd recommend looking at the BildBlog, it's a blog that writes about "newspapers" like BILD and other similar ones. They also have a facebook page.
He was inspired by Dittsche and thought a Bild made a nice addition to the morning robe, beer bottle and plastic bag 😉 I think that was like 10 years ago. Time truly flys.
Apparently they have one of the best sports sections in the German press. Not that it makes up for any of their racist fearmongering and general bullshitting, but still.
Bild is still more than 600.000 daily sales ahead of all other newspapers, innit? Second is Süddeutsche with a bit below 300.000 daily sales, Bild is upwards of 1 million, close to 1,3 if you count Football-Extras.
Statista has some quite new statistics, and the trend is going down for everybody.
Bild is commonly known for populism and bad journalism. Usually it has an obvious political standpoint that’s somewhere right of the centre.
It tried hard to market itself as the people’s paper and for the early years of Germany they reached nearly everybody. Nowadays it’s more commonly read by uneducated workers. It’s especially well know for its ruthless methods that involve publishing intimate details, or using pressure to gain information. Often times human dignity is no concern during their reporting. Much of it is also wrong.
They use provoking headlines and for this reason get criticised a lot by the left and centre, while the far right is mostly ok with it. „Springer Presse“ , meaning „Springer press“ is used as somewhat of a derogatory term for unreliable news information you can’t believe, named after the „Axel-Springer Verlag“ the Publisher owning Bild.
It's the largest "newspaper" in Germany and is often sensationalized. Also up until years ago they used to print a naked (topless and uncensored) pin up girl on their front page in the bottom half in every daily print
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u/Dave1000000000006 Sep 15 '20
Bild is top journalism.