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Urdu - Pakistan
Das Unbehagen teilen damals auch die Kommentatoren der wahrlich nicht linken Presse. (Die Tageszeitung (1997))

This must mean: "The uneasy feeling was shared at that time by the commentators of the really not dirty press too."

But shouldn't it have been "teilten" instead of "teilen"?
Of course teilten would be correct but in this case, the present tense is used to refer to a past event ('historical present'), probably for stylistic reasons. In German, this occurs quite frequently:
Everything all the time. - WordRidden

(Off-topic but perhaps worth mentioning: linke Presse = 'left-wing press')
Is this similar to how French uses the present quite often to talk about the past (except in newspapers)?
Is this similar to how French uses the present [?] to talk about the past
Where did you see that French uses the present to talk about the past?
Als historisches PrÀsens (auch narratives PrÀsens) wird die Verwendung des PrÀsens in ErzÀhlungen von Vergangenem bezeichnet.
cf.:
Le présent historique, aussi appelé présent de narration, est l'emploi de l'indicatif dans une phrase ou un texte relatant des événements passés du point de vue du narrateur. Il est fréquent [uniquement] dans le discours didactique et encyclopédique.
In this sentence (Das Unbehagen teilen damals auch die Kommentatoren der wahrlich nicht linken Presse.) present would not be used in French.
My bad. French sometimes uses the present to talk about the past.
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