Case relotius: journalism as a protective surgery
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The mirror is shocked over the discovery that a priced reporter has manipulated stories in coarse scope
The mirror unpacked before christmas, this time in our own thing. A fraud in its own house was disclosed, threw it yesterday afternoon. Have a reporter of the news magazine "in a coarse circumference manipulated their own stories". In the house you are shocked, colleagues are deep, the case relotius mark a low point in the 70th history of the mirror.
The fraud was uncovered internally, it is called. You go now "humility" to the workup. That’s how you do that, as far as it goes, transparent and introduces that there are many questions that you are in itself.
Elsewhere you can read that it’s in the place of the reception of the reportage "in a small town", has appeared the past year, and the small town of fergus if in minnesota imagined as "typical for the rival america, the trump made to the prasident", gave a lot of concrete questions and critical notes from residents.
There are so many lugs that my friend jake and I had to scare them for this article on the 11 most absurd lugs.
Michele anderson and jake krohn
The untruths have been collected for a while, but because of other activities, was only now excited by the enthusiasm, which have now been published in the mirror to present them in an article.
It is likely that there is a lot more similar more from other pages to days.
There are a few questions that will face the editors of the mirror and the truth in fergus fall. How does journalist jurys have awarded so many prizes to claas relotius, from which the author must admit this contribution that he did not know him until yesterday?
The crude potpourris, which looked like masterful reports, made him one of the most successful journalists of these years. You have registered CLAAS relotius four german reporter prices, peter scholl-latour prize, konrad-duden-, kindernothilfe, catholic and coburg media prize. He became a CNN-"journalist of the year" burt, he was honored with the reemtsma liberty award, the european press prize, he landed on the forbes list of "30 under 30 – europe: media" – and you wonder how he could endure the eiders of the lauders without running from shame from the hall.
Mirrors
How self-advocate is the operation?
It looks so that the juries who decide on the awarding of the names according to ehrwurdigen prices have liked to have the accusation, which often focuses on a certain reading audience. This is accused that it is all too easy to blend from disinformation, which is considered serios "kruden potpourri" accounting theories or political propaganda.
One of the prices that the spiegel reporter was given is named after peter scholl-latour. Whose reports were characterized by the fact that the picture, the scholl-latour in it reproduced in other countries in other countries, often not the fugging – and he did not pursue this intention too at all – which is in german-speaking countries as official opinion announced or specified was.
Since scholl-latour dominated several languages, had been incorporated in the areas that he reported, with the ratios were familiar and with many persons, from strain artists to political leaders, spoke in a way that does not focus on confirmation of predetermined opinions was, his reports were worth reading.
They fought new or opposed to the well-known picture. After the reading, the world had become gross for the readers, but not necessarily in a way that all contradictions were canceled. On the contrary.
Confirm what you believe in knowing
Different with relotius. Who makes the muhe and the report of claas relotius over the "boys with whom syrian war began" read out, do not learn about syria, what she or he did not like to know or knows. And the whole thing in a language shows that hemingway still has a home god of pramnated "precious springs" but only its short-line paint and the rhythm, not the difficult look.
It is the 2642. Day of the war and the last thousand camps in daraa, one of the last rebel shops in syria, can barely defend themselves. Mouawiya sends a voice message, his voice sounds impacted: "here is mouawiya, you can horen me? You are posting us with morsters and missiles. We have almost no ammunition, hardly any weapons from abroad come. Actually, the americans should yell to us, but they have given us. We are sitting in a stone bunker. We can only pray."
The boy with whom syrian war began
The text does not only operate at this point with known offset printing, which is known from twitter madchen in the syrian war. They correspond exactly what you expect from a pre-recorded syria image. The reportage with its authenticity bonus only confirmed amptions that are made from afar. The world becomes smaller and berter. So why should you read such reports overhead?
The jury of the reporter prize have the text because of his "unprecedented lightness, density and relevance, which never opens, on which sources it is based" praised, it is called in the mirror reading. The source situation is by no means clear how now known. The text contained "classic relotius false scenes".
Another short tasting, this time the conclusion from the reportage of jaegers border from november this year:
Jaeger has to think about trump’s words now. "Catch and back", he says and puts his rifle in peace. He does not know what’s down there in the valley, an animal or a person. Maybe he believes he has to do what trump’s soldiers do not do, now do themselves. Maybe he does not want to believe that trump’s words were only election campaign all the time, just a show. Jaeger blinks into the darkness, the gun lies on his shoulder. He has no goal. He can not see anything. And at some point he prints off.
Burger defense against escape. Jaegers’s border
"It is the one folded text too much", the mirror writes. Apparently is not sure if jaeger overheap exists outside in the fiction. Claas relotius wrote about "people he did not hit or even invented, he described scenes that there never never gave".
Apparently, however, in the juries and the editors (not only the mirror has contributed to relotius published) the desire of such fictions and the joy of such people and scenes gross as the description of realities that are complicates and more hateful than what one expect. The award-winning reports from relotius function like shoreness operations. What does not fit is made to fit.
"Precious springs" and success prere
Was "precious spring" as a term in everyday languages has become a curiosum, he stands in journalistic noble operation for very good payment and prices – and for printing the company produces it. Two times moved to syria and nothing to return, but then more and louder is thought about the costs of the next journey and the luster is disposed of. The surfaces were originated from the success of success, explores the now degenerate reporter.
Obviously the prufters were also exposed to the editors. This shows that there was a long resistance to those who ubten the doubts about the authenticity. But how important is this operating internal, self-referential success prere, if you take the readership in the look? Who really wants to get painted out with the precious spring, which is already punched out?
"The reportage is often held for a form of literature. Often she is not even serious journalism", the subtitle is an article by claudius seidl to the genre. The transfer is indicative: "the surprisingness of the world".
Now it is probably a great way to look like the exams in the editorial offs, whether the scam was not visible, as morally reprehensible the reporter has traded etc.. But the more interesting disputes run there, where one is the tendency to "meaning" more accurately and the willingness to add to the.
Addendum: "we have the journalism we have because we should", writes jorg thadeusz, who has moderated many award ceremonies, but had decided to go down in summer. He speaks of "fruit", he is celebrated.
