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The question is no longer whether parts of the media love Annalena Baerbock and the Greens, but how much.

The green voting preference of many journalists is documented in the few surveys, as most recently among public service volunteers (albeit not representative).

However, such a preference does not have to result in an intention for voting.

And not every prejudice that political opponents of the Greens use to instrumentalize their own agenda is true.

Even if there is always very friendly reporting, it is fundamentally not as undifferentiated in Germany as mocking names such as "Green Funk" (for Deutschlandfunk) suggest.

But with Annalena Baerbock's candidacy, things are clearly different in parts of the media.

Baerbock is showered with advance praise in comments.

In comparison to CDU candidate Armin Laschet, the most advantageous photo is always chosen.

Co-boss Robert Habeck is asked very soft questions and even compliments are given in an interview with “Zeit”.

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The spearhead of green journalism in Germany is the “star”.

Once one of the most important magazines in Germany, a political magazine in the best sense of the word.

One of the companions of the Bonn Republic.

Today the magazine wants to outsource its political editorial team and leaves the entire issue for one issue to the climate activists of Fridays for Future.

And so the look at this Thursday's issue makes you shudder.

The title is dedicated to Baerbock's candidacy and leaves with “Finally different - Annalena Baerbock wants new rules for politics.

How far will it come? ”You can already guess where the journey is headed.

In the editorial, editor-in-chief Anna-Beeke Gretemeier explains her love for Baerbock and cannot do without the wonderful lie: "Suddenly it's about content and not people!"

It doesn't get any better in the cover story “The Alternative”.

There it is written about Baerbock's "weaknesses" that it is a bit hectic and too precise.

She couldn't have sold herself better.

And at the end of the story, in the event that the Chancellery does not work out in 2021, she is given the prospect: “In four years she will count again:“ One - attention!

Two - tension!

Three - the jump.

To the Chancellor's Office. "

The story in “Stern” is representative of how close the media will seek to the Greens in the federal election campaign.

Will the Greens actually be carried into the Chancellery with the friendly support of the media or is the initial enthusiasm for the new after 16 years of Merkel and CDU giving way?