Even though Schröder looks somewhat like an offended party-pooper about it, I can understand him. That tabloid rag has been absolutely unbearable lately. And the campaign interference in Hamburg was anything but objective journalism. Unfortunately, though, the press's misconduct is not a problem that can be solved through legal or legislative means, but only through the integrity of journalists - and image journalists probably have to hand over their integrity at the door anyway ...
A functioning press is an important control mechanism in a democracy. But if the press sinks to the level of such sleazy tabloids, and these sleazy tabloids then make politics through their market dominance, then the whole thing becomes a problem. Sure, it wouldn't be a problem if readers didn't believe every bit of nonsense printed in these papers.
But unfortunately, every society gets the press it deserves ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.