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When the news really is fake: German reporter admits fabricating coverage

StraitShot47

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Keep up the RTRs!

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To see what happens when your entire life is a lie read below.

BERLIN — When one of Germany’s most long-standing and often-cited publications, Der Spiegel, pushed out a news alert Wednesday, the subject was its own failing. The magazine revealed that one of its star reporters, Claas Relotius, likely embellished his coverage and allegedly fabricated entire events for years, before resigning on Monday.

The winner of numerous journalism awards, including CNN’s “Journalist of the Year,” the European Press Prize and Forbes List of “30 under 30 — Europe: Media” award, the 33-year-old reporter had risen to quick fame in media circles and the public eye but had mixed fact with fiction and even spun whole tales for one of Germany’s most respected media companies.

One of Der Spiegel’s editors in chief, Ullrich Fichtner, described internal reactions using the words “shock,” “sadness,” and “appalling,” and wrote that the incident constituted the “low point in the 70-year history of Spiegel.”

The magazine, which recently introduced the slogan “No fear of the truth,” acknowledged in a piece published on Thursday that “we have many questions for ourselves.”

In his roughly 11-year-long career as a journalist, Relotius authored or co-authored 55 stories for Spiegel and three stories for its sister online publication, Spiegel Online. He also has written for other prominent German news outlets, including Cicero, Financial Times Deutschland, Welt, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

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The French jooz run press got caught photoshopping images of the protests in France. This is just another day with a tribe of lying psychosnouts running society into the ground.
 
The thoughtform is so dead, i can't belive how many win we had this month! Keep up the Rtr!!!
 
It seems he wrote about such lovely commie ideals.

The many topics he wrote about included sensationalized or entirely fabricated accounts of a Yemeni prisoner in Guantanamo, a pro-Trump town in rural America and vigilante groups along the U.S.-Mexican border, among others.

When confronted last week, Relotius acknowledged many of the fabrications. The “fear of failure,” he said, according to his bosses, had mounted the more his colleagues celebrated him for his work over the years.
 

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