Last but not least: WoZ vs. Weltwoche

In their latest issues, *Die Weltwoche* and the weekly newspaper are trading barbs. In doing so, the two very different publications are doing each other a favor.

 Weltwoche and the weekly newspaper are exchanging blows in the current issues. In doing so, the two disparate publications are doing each other a service. On the Wochenzeitung (WoZ) page, the Bernese rapper Greis puts the former magazine man Peer Teuwse, now head of the culture and knowledge department at Weltwoche, in a verbal headlock. In the interview, Teuwsen asserts that no other editorial team he knows of has such open disputes as Weltwoche, but regrets its low proportion of women. He admits that many of his editors are disappointed left-wingers, but that Weltwoche is by no means an SVP paper. The Köppel paper offers the opposite scenario and Peer Teuwsen takes the WoZ columnist to task. Greis calls for a boycott of Weltwoche because it manages to make the ideas of the SVP, which promotes racist tendencies, acceptable in the urban center-left milieu. He accuses the paper of one-sided reporting and points out that "right-wing ideas are mainstream today". From a media point of view, the two can congratulate each other - because as much as the WoZ is an enemy in right-wing circles, Weltwoche is hated on the opposite side, and the two are happy to be confirmed in their respective positions.

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