@ Ray

Some examples?

I gave some examples in previous discussions we had on your blog and other blogs over the last year or so. I might write a comprehensive post about your blog, when I got more time. (Not anytime soon.)

"Many readers of Medienkritik seem to think that nearly all German publications are Anti-American, which is not true."

How do you know that Jorg? Have you polled our readers? The comments of a few (the vast majority of our readers do not leave comments) do not necessarily represent the views of the entire audience.

I did not make such a claim. I did not say "entire audience". I did not say that x percent of your readers think xyz.

We don't see ourselves as strongly conservative (we are actually quite liberal on certain issues), but you are entitled to your opinion.

I might have made a grammatical error or shoudl not have used the comma, when I wrote that Medienkritik "also promotes very strongly, conservative opinions."

The word "strongly" was supposed to be a qualifier for "promote" rather than "conservative."

Okay, you might take issue with the word "conservative" as well. I did not know a better word. Likewise, Bush is often described as conservative, but he is foreign and fiscal policy certainly is not conservative at all in the traditional sense.

Anyway, my point was that being a watchblog of Anti-Americanism and making advocacy for political viewpoints do not go together very well.

I appreciate your work on exposing Anti-Americanism. Everytime I link to Medienkritk, I get criticism in several emails.

I think, most of your critics are not Anti-American fans of Spiegel etc. Rather they don't like your strong support for the Iraq war and other US policies and your strong criticism of Germany, the SPD, the Greens, Muslims, US Democrats etc.
So, when I link to Medienkritik, I get accused of supporting your political views as well, although I just like your work on exposing Anti-American articles.

I try to clearly differentiated between your two missions: a) exposing Anti-American articles and b) criticizing liberals/Germans and promoting Republican policies/viewpoints.

Most of your critics do not make such a differentiation.

If Medienkritik wants to be read by more Germans and be taken seriously by more Germans, then you should not mix being a watchblog and making conservative advocacy. Especially those, who are in the news business, do not like such a mix.

If you really want German publications like Spiegel and Stern to be less Anti-American, then you should try to get more German readers rather than even more American readers.

@ Ray

You asked for an example of a misleading post:

For example the recent post "Saddam Come Back?"

Recently, the LA Times and SPIEGEL ONLINE published pieces entitled "Saddam Come Back!" To make them feel a little better, we decided to post this video:

This gives the impression that Spiegel called for a comeback of Saddam, but Spiegel was just reporting about the despair at the LA Times.

You have primarily American readers. I think it is fair to assume that the majority cannot read German. Thus they cannot check for themselves, what Spiegel has actually written.

I did not notice that it was filed under comedy. I usually fail to see under what category something is filed.
Still, I think by now your readers expect Spiegel to say anything. Even if the realize that the post is filed under comedy, they might consider the video as comedy, but take the Spiegel reference seriously.

"...SPIEGEL ONLINE published pieces entitled "Saddam Come Back!" To make them feel a little better,..."

To me, "make them feel a little better" suggests that Spiegel calls for a comeback of Saddam (with exclamation mark) or at least would like to see a return of Saddam. What else does "make them feel a little better" mean?

"So who made a rule that said a watchdog blog cannot also express an opinion or write a commentary sometimes?"

Fine, so you are in Fuchur's territory.
I don't know about any such rule. I just think that this mixing is the main reason, why many Germans don't take Medienkritik's exposure of Anti-Americanism seriously. In fact, the average German guy who stumbles across your blog might not realize that Medienkritik is a watchblog for Anti-Americanism, but rather thinks that you are an Anti-German hate blog. Thus, you are not winning that person as a reader. You are missing the chance to get someone to do something about Anti-Americanism. You might have a large number of German readers, but most of your readers are Americans and, as I said above, you are appealing primarily to Americans on the right (and to some neocon Germans) rather than to a wide number of Germans, who care about transatlantic relations and bad and biased journalism. Bildblog attracts some 50,000 readers, who care about bad journalism.