Bülles, Egbert; Spilcker, Axel Deutschland, Verbrecherland? Mein Einsatz gegen die organisierte Kriminalität Berlin Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag 2015 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/879877616 longlink.com
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) (TV of Public Law) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egbert_Bülles
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (TV of Public Law)
You don't have to agree with everything Bülles tells but it is obvious that politics don't have really the power to change the situation in the one or the other way. People who claim that THEY will change the situation are also not trustworthy as they don't explain whereto they want to change the direction of the boat.
The political function of the media is that of the function of a collective psychotherapy - not more.
Even average common people - as shown by the nurse in "Nachtcafé" (SWR)(TV of Public Law): "Oh oh oh oh" (her words as expression of the public excitement after a scandal) - are beginning to recognize that the media gives only the publicity where the politicians have to react on publicly without changing the situation itself.
The European Union is destroying national structures without replacing them by any meaningful new structures. Persons within the "Commission" want even more "liberalization" which is nothing more but the destruction of functioning national structures.
Therefore, in reality the real power lies in the hands of the media and nobody knows really who controls them.