In the past decade, the impact of the 2008 US subprime mortgage crisis has affected every country in the five continents and seven oceans. The political crisis caused by the economic recession has led to the wave of populism sweeping many western developed countries including Europe and the United States. The "democracy and freedom" that western countries have always pursued is threatened by populist parties. In this context, the paper carries out quantitative analysis and content analysis on der Spiegel's report on the AfD, and on this basis, combs its reporting framework, discovers and analyzes the imbalance of its reporting from the reporting framework, and probes into the causes and enlightenment of the imbalance of reporting.