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Actually, journalists from serious media tried that. With very little success. Most participants refuse interviews, and there is a video where masked participan

Actually, journalists from serious media tried that. With very little success. Most participants refuse interviews, and there is a video where masked participants forcibly carry away an interviewee. In other videos journalists are hit, their cameras damaged, and all the time they are shouting hate at the journalists. The "narrow" discussion of immigration is more due to the limited options which have any reasonable chance of getting public support. As we've seen, the majority disagrees with Pegida. Only a fringe portion of the German public wants to break the constitution to tighten immigration. And those who try to fall somewhere in between current policy and breaking the constitution, often don't understand the topic worth a damn. If a journalist has even a modest understanding of the topic he will have the greatest difficulty of entertaining opinions and solutions which are based on factual errors.

deepyearning 12y ago
Do you have any links regarding what you said about the impossibility of interviewing Pegida. From googling, I found the following interviews with Pegida members by RTL, at what appeared to be a peaceful protest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl0KPaLPL7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl0KPaLPL7g and by Phoenix at another apparently peaceful demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp2HKPQpfdg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp2HKPQpfdg >And those who try to fall somewhere in between current policy and breaking the constitution, often don't understand the topic worth a damn. If a journalist has even a modest understanding of the topic he will have the greatest difficulty of entertaining opinions and solutions which are based on factual errors. Well that's a very subjective matter. I see a lot of junk "knowledge" touted by pro immigration groups on this topic. For example, in most European countries immigrants commit more crimes. But there is a lot of obfuscation on this topic, and it's easy to get a smart sounding person to obfuscate the fact that the conditional probability of someone committing a crime given that they are an immigrant (see [0] for an example). [0] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-05-26/davidsonrefugee/2732220 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-05-26/davidsonrefugee/273222...

deepyearning 12y ago

Do you have any links regarding what you said about the impossibility of interviewing Pegida. From googling, I found the following interviews with Pegida members by RTL, at what appeared to be a peaceful protest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl0KPaLPL7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl0KPaLPL7g and by Phoenix at another apparently peaceful demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp2HKPQpfdg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp2HKPQpfdg >And those who try to fall somewhere in between current policy and breaking the constitution, often don't understand the topic worth a damn. If a journalist has even a modest understanding of the topic he will have the greatest difficulty of entertaining opinions and solutions which are based on factual errors. Well that's a very subjective matter. I see a lot of junk "knowledge" touted by pro immigration groups on this topic. For example, in most European countries immigrants commit more crimes. But there is a lot of obfuscation on this topic, and it's easy to get a smart sounding person to obfuscate the fact that the conditional probability of someone committing a crime given that they are an immigrant (see [0] for an example). [0] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-05-26/davidsonrefugee/2732220 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-05-26/davidsonrefugee/273222...