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Have you been ostracized because you didn’t want to get vaccinated? Do you believe that the corona vaccination does not protect against any viruses, but instead causes mass vaccination damage? Are you warning of an impending health dictatorship?
Then send a text to the “Berliner Zeitung”. As long as you keep it relatively brief, there’s a good chance that the newspaper will publish it. If the text is particularly daring, it can be a little longer.
This is at least the impression one gets when looking at what was recently published in the “Open Source” section of the “Berliner Zeitung”: a kind of participatory section that is intended to provide a platform for committed citizen journalism. Here, anyone can submit texts, as is the case in the Self-description the section is called. The prerequisite: “You have something to say.” The newspaper includes Berliners who have experienced something special, residents with “an expert view of one of the many challenges facing our city” or generally people who want to write about “controversies and stories that are otherwise not told.”
Generalizing, twisted, unsubstantiated
The author
In return, the newspaper pays a decent wage, at least compared to the industry, which is roughly equivalent to what freelance journalists can expect per line. Published articles appear online, in print and are even sent out via newsletter. However, …