A fake German Der Spiegel journalist exposed...

All the Der Spiegel journalists lie all of the time -- this is just a propaganda piece to make the public think that plucky honesty keeps "our" press freedom. Of course, all Western journalists lie all of the time because they're mostly spooks or run by spooks.

Either the journalists are spooks or they report to spooky bosses. All of Western media is now controlled by the intelligence agencies. Research Operation Mockingbird and the "Mighty Wurlitzer". It never ended.

You fake, you get awards. That is the MSM.

Journalists are only human. Humans lie for advantage or to cover up and misdirect from the truth. We see it and hear it everyday. Journalists seem to be the worst, simply because they have the audience. Politicians are the worst, because they are owned and say what they are told to say, and do what they are told to do. There are exceptions, but they are few and far between.

Unfortunately the damage is done by the time the truth surfaces. And that is what propaganda is meant to do.

They don't just fabricate, they plant. They plant "narratives" for the likes of the CIA.

If Journalists would do what they are supposedt to do the world would be a better place. No one is more to blame on wars than the media itself.

Journalists also toed the line of their masters on WMD in Iraq.

And said that David Kelly just committed suicide at a convenient time just before he was going to announce the findings of his report.  Journos support the globalist agenda and of course worship the UN officials.

This story has antecedents in Germany. Udo Ulfkotte former editor of the Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung claims that for years he years he published articles and op-eds under his own name that were written and sent to him by the CIA. He also claimed that EVERY major newspaper in Europe has CIA agents on their staff. Then we have Judith Miller in the NYT. Keep in mind that her partner in crime, one Michael Gordon, still works for the NYT.

He said what they wanted to hear. Therefore the awards. It isn't a new low in journalism, it's just a low in world events and those who would steer us in the direction they want. We live in a post-truth world.

It's just a small tip of the iceberg compared to all the fabricated lies from the MSMs.

Once 'Der Spiegel' was a reputable or popular magazine, past tense, their circulation number are in free fall for years. Today they are degraded to a Fake-News and Propaganda outfit, like all the MSM, print + broadcast, in Germany they are infiltrated by parasitic shills+foreign agents of 'The Atlantic Bridge' 'Aspen Institute' + 'Atlantic Council'. The MSM + private broadcaster are owned+controlled by corrupt, rotten+treacherous elites, the public broadcaster are controlled by the corrupt political establishment.

The same everywhere. The Guardian here broke the wikileaks story, and was swiftly taken over by the CIA. Then the Indy was the only occasionally honest news outlet in the UK, but it was bought by the saudis, and from then on took their orders from the KSA tyranny.But those doing this have simply undermined all trust in all western media, hence the rapidly increasing popularity of RT.

Fabricating is what amateurs do. The pros get bought-and-paid-off by the CIA etc. Read the revelations of the late Udo Ulfkotte who, after their publication, met his early demise "of natural causes" (of course) at 55.

Fraud ‘on grand scale’: Top journalist at reputable German magazine faked his stories for YEARS
RT : 19 Dec, 2018

One of Germany’s most popular papers, Der Spiegel, has found itself at the center of a scandal involving one of its top reporters who was caught fabricating elements of his stories.

Claas Relotius, who worked at Der Spiegel as a freelancer for 6 years until receiving a staff position in 2017, seemed to be a paragon of modern journalism. The 33-year-old has received numerous prestigious journalism awards, both in Germany and abroad.

Just this December he was awarded a prize by the German reporter’s association for his story about the life of a child in Syria. In 2014, Relotius was warmly welcomed by CNN who named him ‘Journalist of the Year.’

However, his seemingly brilliant career has turned out to be a house of cards that is now falling apart, just as it had with Stephen Glass, a former staff writer at the New Republic who authored one of the most spectacular fabrication campaigns in the history of American journalism.

It was recently revealed that Relotius literally made up details in his stories and even “invented protagonists” – people he had never met in person.

One of his colleagues who was working with Relotius on a story about the situation on the US-Mexican border grew suspicious of some of the details in the journalist’s report. The man then tracked down two alleged sources Relotius quoted extensively in his text, only to find out that none of them ever actually met him.

The subsequent investigation by Der Spiegel into Relotius’ activities also uncovered that he fabricated details in another story including a claim that he had seen a sign in a US town that read: “Mexicans keep out.” When faced with the incriminating evidence, the journalist confessed to faking elements of his texts – not just in one story, but in a number of them.

So far, at least 14 stories out of almost 60 pieces the journalist wrote for Der Spiegel’s print and online editions turned out to contain fake details, the magazine said, adding that that figure might potentially be higher, and warning that other media outlets might also be affected.

Over the years, Relotius worked for about a dozen German news outlets, including the well-known Die Welt, Die Zeit and Financial Times Germany. Notably, the list of his stories that were proven to be at least partially fake included several pieces that had won journalism awards, including stories about Iraqi children kidnapped by Islamic State and prisoners in Guantanamo.

In a lengthy article which serves as both a clarification of the case and an apology, Der Spiegel said it was “shocked” by the discovery and offered an apology to its readers along with all those affected by Relotius’ articles. It also described the situation as "a low point in Der Spiegel's 70-year history."

Relotius, who resigned after the fraud came to light, told Der Spiegel that he regretted his actions and felt “deeply ashamed.” Meanwhile, the magazine’s management has set up a special investigative commission consisting of what it calls “experienced internal and external persons” to look through all of the journalist’s pieces and prepare recommendations to improve “safety mechanisms.”