Actually they do a pretty bad job. Most of the stuff they have is only available to subscribers [0] (Watch out for SZPlus). This topic is too big to put it behind a paywall, but in Germany the whole thing is already out of the focus of MSM. [1] (CTRL-F : Paradise)

[0]: https://projekte.sueddeutsche.de/paradisepapers/politik/die-... [1]: http://www.tagesschau.de/

EDIT: I just saw, they made more stuff available to the public, yet the concrete pieces on people using the system are paywalled.

> but in Germany the whole thing is already out of the focus of MSM

because in Germany the coalition bartering takes precedence at the moment (where, like the election of the catholic Pope, every tiny signal is massively amplified to keep the buzz going), and it doesn't exactly help that Trump spews out new nonsense every other day, and the neo-nazis from the AfD can be counted upon to do the same if there is nothing newsworthy at the moment...

And the AfD is actually a major part of the problem - they have shifted the discourse from "ultra rich vs poor" to "everyone against Muslims/refugees" pretty successfully and that's shame enough.

Not to give the AfD (German right wing 'tea party') any benefits, but the necessary discussion of social allocation of income and such is one that is buried under crap news in Germany as a long standing tradition.

Your analysis is on the point, but I believe that the AfD is more of a symptom and not much of a cause.

Precisely. Most Germans still remember how the socialist GDR failed, and seem to infer from this that anything that is not neoliberalism is bound to fail (or, alternatively, a pipedream of some delusional leftist students that's not worth trying).