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German conservatives finally take on the country’s left-wing public broadcasters

For those unfamiliar with German domestic politics, the country’s media landscape is greatly dominated by taxpayer-funded media networks ARD and ZDF. Everyone in Germany has to pay to run these two behemoths through mandatory fees, a fact that conservatives have grown increasingly frustrated with since the apparent left-wing bias on both networks has grown stronger […]