Do you think journalists should write respectfully about politicians?

Ritter drove on, following the south bank of the Landwehr Canal. Carla looked at the barges, their loads of coal topped with snow like mountains. She felt a sense of disappointment. She had contrived to spend longer with Werner, by hinting that she wanted a lift, then she had wasted the time talking about ice hockey.

What would she have liked to have talked to him about? She did not know.

Herr Franck said to Mother: 'I read your column in The Democrat'.

'I hope you enjoyed it'

'I was sorry to see you writing disrespectfully about our chancellor.'

'Do you think journalists should write respectfully about politicians? Mother replied cheerfully. 'That's radical. The Nazi press would have to be polite about my husband! They wouldn't like that.'

'Not all the politicians, obviously.' Franck said irritably.

They crossed the teeming junction pf Postdammer Platz. Cars and trams vied with horse-drawn carts and pedestrians in a chaotic melee.

 From the book “Winter of the world” by Ken Follet