In ” The Curve: living in the Corona of the world “, the new Podcast from FOCUS columnist, Jan Fleischhauer, declared to be the son of the “mirror”founder Rudolf Augstein now, why he sees this as a worrying development. In the Hörformat Fleischhauer and Augstein exchange as a weekly guest their very own prospects on the global virus crisis.

“The Curve”: Fleischhauer speaks about the role of media in crisis

In the first episode of the podcast, which is available as of today, warns the journalist to the fact that Online media contribute to the exponential spread of hysteria. “This disease is also transmitted over the network,” says Augstein. Corona will be remembered as the “first true Internet-epidemic, as the first true Internet disease” in the history books. Just as the Gulf war in the 1990s, the war reporting have revolutionized, so Augstein further, Corona, today’s media world on its head. the New Corona Podcast with a FOCUS columnist Jan Fleischhauer

“The Curve: life in the Corona world,” will appear from now on every Wednesday on all major platforms (including Spotify and Deezer). In the Podcast FOCUS-columnist, Jan Fleischhauer, and Jakob Augstein discuss once a week about the Corona-pandemic changed our country. Listen to the first episode:

For comparison, the publicist leads the flu season 2017/2018, the called according to estimates by the Robert Koch Institute to 25,000 deaths. “It was the worst wave for 30 years, but it has no one interested, says it brought no Headline News”, Augstein in the Podcast. Due to the ever-faster communication and the media Herd, the danger is that the Internet is an accelerant to the crisis was.

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The reader or hate him, indifferent Jan Fleischhauer is the least. One need only look at the comments to his columns, to get an impression of how much of what he writes, people moved. For 30 years he was at the MIRROR, at the beginning of August 2019, he joined as a columnist to FOCUS.

Fleischhauer sees it as his task to give a view of the world voice, he says, that it is represented in the German media. So in case of doubt, against the stove places and ways of Thinking drive, in common. Fun his lyrics are all – perhaps it is this fact that provoked his opponents the most.

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