Vom Versuch, nicht weiss zu schreiben

This is a personal book, the workshop report of a longtime journalist who shares her experiences, her mistakes, her doubts. Charlotte Wiedemann takes her readers on a challenging journey through cultures and continents, from Iran to Africa to New Guinea, and she lets them look behind the scenes of the work of a foreign reporter. How is our view of the world formed? What can journalists actually understand about the "foreign", the "other"? And how truthful is their image of reality? The attempt not to write white: This is the search for a view of the world that frees itself from the narrowness of Eurocentrism. A plea for a journalism of respect. Respect also for the media user, who is more dumbed down than enlightened by the daily onslaught of contextless news. The book turns s.