--- Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> It is quite a stretch to describe Die Zeit as
> "conservative". I think most would acknowledge that
> it is significantly to the left of Der Spiegel. Die
> Zeit is a *neo-liberal* paper, not a conservative
> one.
> That is the problem. You are defining as "left"
> anything which is opposed to neo-liberalism.
>
This isn't really relevant here, but I have been told by those who should know that the Soviet government viewed Spiegel as an asset until some time in the 1980s (when it changed ownership?).
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