Zentralorgan
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Zentralorgan is a 19th-century German term for journals associated with a certain technical field, party or political movement. Later it was reduced to a term for official party papers and journals of socialist and worker parties since the 19th century.[citation needed]
Besides the
Another use of Zentralorgan is found for important journals in certain fields. E.g. the computer magazine c't was dubbed Zentralorgan of Nerdistan by a Spiegel article.[1]
Another, more derogative use is to describe an important news outlet that suppresses certain opinions in which deviant opinions were unwanted.
An allegiance to a socialist past[citation needed] is as well a fan magazine of Dynamo Dresden called Zentralorgan.
Sources
- ^ 25 Jahre "c't", Zentralorgan von Nerdistan, by Frank Patalong, Der SPIEGEL, 31.10.2008,