The Transitional Program a
Socialist Press1978 1978-02-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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Gotten is gone and the press campaign gets underway as Blum is dragged to the police station for questioning.
Everything about her private life is distorted (or simply invented) and splashed all over the pages of the mass circulation Die Zeitung-her "political views" (actually non existent), her "callousness" (untrue) and, in particular her sex-life.
Obnoxious
Although all this press sensationalisation is shown to be the fault of one paper and in particular of one obnoxious reporter, Totges, the film shows the power of the mass media, not just to destroy, innocent individuals like Katharina Blum, but to prepare the way for attacks on people who are "radicals"
Gotten's "crime" turns out to be very minor and
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