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Interest in news declined somewhat after the 2020 COVID boost. Nevertheless, usage remains high. 2022 was also the year when #MeToo impacted on Germany’s media leaders.
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Interest in news declined somewhat after the 2020 COVID boost. Nevertheless, usage remains high. 2022 was also the year when #MeToo impacted on Germany’s media leaders.
In March 2020, as COVID-19 spread around the world and political leaders began to realise that an immediate response to the pandemic would involve personal sacrifices and public action, politicians and their directors of public health policies took to stadiums, lecterns, and cameras to speak about the need to stay home, shut schools and nurseries, ration access to grocery stores and health services. The men, and they were usually men, spoke of social cohesion and a need to act selflessly and responsibly. The women, and they were usually women, who took on the greatest burden on housework, chi...