German Media Bias Falsely Inflates Crime by Foreigners

German media bias falsely inflates crime by foreigners

"We are charting something like the fever curve of society," journalism professor Thomas Hestermann said of his new study, "Crime and Migration: Perception in German Media," which examined how the nationality and ethnicity of crime suspects has been reported since 2007. Hestermann's team at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg compiled their 2025 findings for the Berlin-based Mediendienst Integration, a research service for j…

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchersMainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely.The findings, published in the European Journal of Political Research, were ba…