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True - I guess I just need to be able to safely trust their journalistic integrity, it doesn't need to be completely independent in a strict sense.
I should absolutely start reading DW, thanks for the reminder! Though their coverage of the Amsterdam unrest does not seem immediately encouraging. I guess it is German after all. At least the Guardian did a decent job on that.
Yeah, take everything German news agencies have to say about topics involving Israel with grains of salt. A shitton of independent left-wing German news agencies are pro-Israel. Those that aren't are usually full on tankie, pro-Russia and everything for some fucking reason.
Their reports on Gaza are quite unambiguous in who's suffering and who's at fault, but that's by presenting facts, not interpreting them, or doing much drilling. Generally speaking they avoid talking about Israeli politics as much as they can: If the foreign ministry doesn't want to talk about it you won't see it on DW, there's no direct ties just some kind of telepathic connection.
Compare that with their reports on e.g. the reparations discussion with Namibia, it's night and day when it comes to covering detail.