https://www.cjr.org/analysis/der-spi...s-relotius.php
When fact gets overruled by fiction. A nice story that not only tells its point, but also illustrates the general mod of German mental state.
Der Spiegel should have the world's biggest fact-checking department in business, it is claimed:
https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_...rgest_fact.php
I have a very two-folded attitude towards Der Spiegel. They often seem to have the facts right - but then give them an interpretational twist and bias by not differentiating between fact report and opinion piece, and also by meddling the news telling with emotional arousal and sentimental outrage. Entertainment - and wanted politicial correctness, especially in its left-leaning interpretation - trump sober documentation. And that is the death sentence for serious journalism.
The main intention of the liar seem to have been to "reveal" the rawness of America:
https://translate.google.de/translat...3DprintPreview
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I do not pay for web newspapers, and I never will, like I never buy paper newspapers. Serious journalism is a dying thing, and I am already pissed that I must pay for the political parties' propaganda platforms ARD and ZDF even if I do not consume them. The Federal Constitutional cynically so-called "Court" recently has ruled that the fact that these broadcasters live by enforced taxes that are not called taxes is what allows them to meet the competition . That they get this money anyway and no matter their low quality but high pensions schemes, is the main reason why both ARD and ZDF as a matter of fact can avoid market competition, the jesters court has deliberately denied, claiming exactly the roppposite. This can only be explained by a deep-rooting socialist attitude grown in German m,entlaity - and the fact that repeatedly judges and high ranking directors at b oth TV stations were coming from same families so that no two crows hack each others eyes - or damage each other' interests.