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58 percent of Germans between the ages of six and 69 gamble. “Gaming has arrived in the middle of society”, says business journalist Frauke Holzmeier in an interview with Michel Abdollahi. German industry is still being left behind by other countries, but the industry’s economic power is enormous. Politicians have now recognized this and, under the leadership of Andreas Scheuer, Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure, is providing 250 million euros to support the local games industry. Is that enough?
Is a new TV broadcaster changing the media market?
Media journalist Alexander Krei from the DWDL industry service explains at “important today”that the new channel BILD-TV will not be German Fox News. Firstly, it is not a classic news channel, such as n-tv, and secondly, no radical forces are invited into the studio there. Nevertheless, the media in Germany are changing, also due to the ever faster communication in social networks. The best example are the prime ministerial conferences during the corona pandemic, from which numerous text messages and tweets were sent. “Everyone is out for the quick applause, for the quick punch line, but in the end we don’t listen to each other anymore”, sagt Krei.
The Greens rhyme in their new election commercial
Also: Michel Abdollahi touches on the last debate in Twitter Germany. Here the Greens’ new election commercial is mocked, in which the party singing the old folk song “Not a beautiful country” rewrote.

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