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As someone who used to work at @SPIEGELONLINE's English shop, here's my two cents on the #Relotius #SpiegelGate affair: Spiegel has always worshipped the "Edelfeder" fancypants wordsmith to the detriment of its journalism. Each issue could be half as thick and say twice as much.
What the mag needs is stronger editors who tell Mr. Edelfeder: "Great story, Lutz. Now cut out 2000 words of fluff and back all this flowery crap up. Don't bother to file until you've done that." Instead, Mr. Edelfeder gets to write whatever the hell he (it's always a he) wants.
Case in point: A former DC correspondent (who later became editor-in-chief) had to be called out for pinching a quote without attribution from Time or somewhere while reporting from Washington. Just sloppy. Or lazy. But stronger editing would have caught it before translation.
Brilliant blog demonstrating how the #Relotius #SpiegelGate scandal has to do with the incentive for journalists to come up with entertaining sensational 'stories' rather than boring accounts of complexity. And Spiegel is pretty sensationalist
What Spiegel defines as 'criminal conduct' in its response, is actually the method that a novel- or songwriter would use. If the bottom line is to publish a 'nice story' that's how you best get one.
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As the reporter says, he acted as he was under pressure to come up with new successful articles - suggesting that his behaviour was systematically rewarded (until he got caught)
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Apropos #spiegelgate & #Relotius: Ich arbeite seit über 10 Jahren in der PR, v.a. für größere mittelständische Unternehmen. Einer unserer täglichen Herausforderungen ist, dass selbst GFs o. Vorstände keinen Bock haben, mit Nicht-Fach-Journalisten zu sprechen,
weil sie davon ausgehen, dass ihre Position nicht korrekt dargestellt wird, sie selbst lächerlich gemacht werden & der Journalist eine Hidden Agenda vertritt. Deswegen wird, wenn gesprochen wird, gestanzt gesprochen & auf Autorisierung des Interviews bestanden.
Dieses tiefe Mißtrauen gegen Journalisten gab es schon vor #FakeNews & #Wutbürger-Debatten. Wenn wir sagen: Keine Angst, die wollen doch nix Böses, kriegt man ne Geschichte zu hören, wo man sich fragt, was sich der Journalist da gedacht hat. Meistens echt nix böses,
