The almost unbelievable events surrounding Novak Djokovic, probably the best tennis player in history, clearly show how hypocritically the media and society deal with injustice by repressing it. In January 2022, he was excluded from the Australian Open and other tennis tournaments under humiliating circumstances, and in some cases even imprisoned, because he rejected the completely pointless and life-threatening experimental Covid-19 gene injections for good reasons [19]. The mere fact of harassing a perfectly healthy world-class athlete in such a way should have triggered a worldwide wave of protest in the sports community. Instead, there was an embarrassed silence and Djokovic duped the media and the sports world with his extra class by continuing to expand his series of victories and records unimpressed, with which he gave the right answer to all the opportunists through his achievements, like Jesse Owens once did in 1936 [20] . The audience cheered him again as soon as they had permission to do so, sending greetings to the turncoats from the GDR. With the Nordic combined athlete and Olympic champion Felix Gottwald one can highlight another upstanding sports colleague who followed in Djokovic’s footsteps and was also banished into media obscurity [21].
In the context discussed here, the already mentioned actress of the interior minister, representing her political caste, reveals the entire depths of human character, which obviously must represent an obligatory proof of qualifications for carrying out political activity. While in the past she distinguished herself as a vaccinator and agitator against the “unvaccinated” [22], in 2023 she is posing completely shamelessly in the glory of the German basketball world champions, right next to the “unvaccinated” critic and captain Dennis Schröder [23]. If this lady had decency, she would have finally resigned after she was punished by voters in the Hessian state elections, but decency, let’s leave it alone.
And what actually comes from the environment of football, which is omnipresent in the media? With the exception of a few lone fighters, there is a collective silence there. With soccer world champion Thomas Berthold, who already stood out as an intelligent player during his playing days, there is at least a prominent, committed advocate who was immediately framed and neutralized by the media [24]. The same procedure was applied to the successful Bundesliga coach Uwe Rapolder and the German soccer champion player Andreas Buck, who also took a critical position [25]. The fact that so few from the scene dare to take a stand publicly is due to the mega show around Joshua Kimmich, similar to the example set at the 1968 Olympics, which should remind every football player not to dare to make a noise [26]. However, Christian Streich’s high-profile outlier at Easter 2023 proves that you can’t keep everyone under control at all times. You almost can’t believe your ears as the renowned Bundesliga coach completely correctly denounces the excesses of neo-capitalism [27], given the explosive nature of his theses of course received no attention in the mainstream media. Instead, he was quickly brought back into line [28], because otherwise he would have suffered the same fate as a former Federal President whose criticism of capitalism cost him his office and his existence [29].
Ultimately, the question remains: what contribution did the legions of sports commentators actually make in terms of critical statements about current events during the hour-long broadcasts of various competitions? Well, they externally wore the same muzzles on their faces that were imposed on them internally editorially. In a cartel of silence, they are just as guilty as the actors in the arena. A single find proves the same mechanisms of defamation when opposition arises at the microphone to the prescribed narrative [30]. An indictment of journalism that can be seamlessly followed into the newsrooms of the Republic.
