The Bild is the populist rag of the establishment.
With its racy pictures and eye-grabbing headlines, Bild — which sells one million print copies a day — has a massive impact on the German people's mindset.
Twenty regional editions serve every corner of the country and each month its website attracts 25 million visitors, almost a third of the nation's adult population.
'It is the chosen literary fodder of politicians,' I was told by a seasoned commentator in Germany this week.
Mrs Merkel's predecessor, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, once said in a memorable testimonial: 'To govern, I need Bild daily, the Bild Sunday edition, and the TV.'
And, as a senior minister in Mrs Merkel's cabinet during the 2015 migration crisis, the now European Commission president Ursula Von Der Leyen even turned up at Bild's Berlin headquarters for its editors' influential dinner parties.
Germany's fate has long since been sealed. It'll turn into Yugoslavia before long because the German's post-war identity is that of 'host' to more boisterous, loud and obnoxious guests. Immigration and pathologically making up excuses for foreigners is their national religion.
The Bild is the populist rag of the establishment.
Germany's fate has long since been sealed. It'll turn into Yugoslavia before long because the German's post-war identity is that of 'host' to more boisterous, loud and obnoxious guests. Immigration and pathologically making up excuses for foreigners is their national religion.