The online newspaper Journal21 has been in existence for four years. It is a project by the former "Tagesschau" boss Heiner Hug, who has put his heart and soul into it and also financially gathered around him a group of mostly long-serving journalists who cannot stop writing and informing people, but who are increasingly finding no room for this in the media, which is trying to save money to the point of extinction.
The old master of reporting on the Arab and Islamic portugal rcs data world Arnold Hottinger, the cultural expert Alex Bänninger, the historian Urs Bitterli, the reporter Armin Wertz and many more write with enthusiasm and for free. A small oasis in the desert of increasingly superficial fast-food journalism. I have also published many articles on Journal21 in recent years . As I am a supporter of the open word and do not shy away from taking on banks and other powerful institutions, there have occasionally been legal concerns in the Journal21 editorial team, but never problems.
Now it happened that one of our co-authors published a polemic that, in my opinion, exceeded the limits of what was permissible.