Der Spiegel’s “Fabricated News” Scandal Shakes Western Mainstream Journalism To The Core

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Der Spiegel’s “Fabricated News” Scandal Shakes Western Mainstream Journalism To The Core

By P Gosselin on 21. December 2018
 

It’s doubtful Spiegel whether will ever recover its credibility now that it was revealed one of its star reporters had been fabricating stories for years.

The extent of the news fabrication is no better illustrated than in the case of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, where now disgraced journalist Claas Relotius invented stories with the aim of viciously smearing rural American Trump voters as contemptible, small-minded, gun-toting, right-wing religious rednecks. And, sadly, most Spiegel readers lapped it up.

The Spiegel piece on Fergus Falls, like so many others, was a fictional wonder. Yet, Fergus Falls fought back as Medium.com writers Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn wrote how there were “so many lies” that they “had to narrow them down to top 11 most absurd lies” and that even “a child could figure out in a Google search.”

http://notrickszone.com/2018/12/21/der-spiegel-relotius-fabricated-news-scandal-shakes-western-mainstream-journalism-to-the-core/

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The big old print/web/tv publishers, have been replaced by google, facebook and twitter, who all in concert, can change public option.

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This writer was telling his Euro readers, that Americans are hicks and idiots, with their guns and Bibles.


Them there hicks aren't idiots, cuz they know how to grow ethanol corn, to fight global warming, before we burn up.