2014-11-03 GERMANY: Growing scandal of media corruption
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[via Anonymous Berlin]
Purchased journalists already over 100,000 copies sold: FAZ co-editor Günther Nonnenmacher has been forced to respond to Udo Ulfkottes book "Purchased journalists" [1] and called "seriously ill" ex-employee. The book is "ridiculous and abstruse". Stupid only that the FAZ in Ulfkotte labour certificate is a completely opposite picture of the author, namely that the accurate and clean working flagship journalists, who always met him "tasks" to the utmost satisfaction. Top grade!
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http://goo.gl/zOaxkZ which has"Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"-Mitherausgeber Günther Nonnenmacher Meedia Media magazine for the first time publicly related position to Udo Ulfkottes book"Purchased journalists".» The work was "ridiculous and abstruse". The author was suffering from some sort of change of heart after a serious illness. Nonnenmacher detects a kind of change Ulfkotte after a serious illness. "Then I had the impression of a kind of personality change, he told more and more absurd stories and there were a series of strange incidents and allegations," Nagle says spleen in an interview with "medium magazin" Editor-in-Chief Annette. Ulfkotte had therefore repeatedly been admonished, but: "we have attributed it to his existential condition Ulfkottes strange development - and hence consideration. Human consideration was always a principle of this House."
Ulfkottes book was published in September and has triggered a broad public discussion about the General venality of journalists. The author writes, he was corruptible while working for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 1986 to 2003. The same he he accuses his colleagues, constitutes a dangerous proximity to elite networks and shows that government agencies such as the Federal Intelligence Service affect the reporting and literally dictate.
The ass on pins and needles goes FAZ: the growing criticism of journalism can be an existential problem for the industry according to Nagle: "If this alienation between the public and journalists should proceed, is clear that we would get another one added to the structural problems of the industry - advertising revenues, crumbling conditions -." Nah can detect no blunder in his 20 years of editorship, although there have been cases where would editors disappointed his trust and exceeded their limits. This is not covered by the profession in the FAZ, "as they all colleagues share here basically". The bottom line he concludes in the "medium magazin": "I have no regrets."
From the outset to take the wind out of the sails of Udo Ulfkottes certificate to such defamation, Ulfkotte put his work testimony already on the 16.10.2014 online, by the former editor of FAZ his former employee describes the as flagship journalists. In the certificate, issued on November 30, 2003, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about Ulfkotte is expressed as follows: [...] Mr. Dr. Ulfkotte worked in the Newsroom, then in the political editorial with a regional focus on Africa and the Middle East. Other areas of work were (...) the intelligence services in the country and abroad.
Mr. Dr. Ulfkotte identified himself with his duties and was always commitment, initiative and determination. He was a persistent employee who was technically challenging in itself and always fully met them. Due to his extremely good comprehension Mr Dr. Ulfkotte worked up quickly and successfully in new topic areas. (…)
Mr. Dr. Ulfkotte continuously applied his solid, detailed and always very up-to-date expertise in the priority areas entrusted to it with great success in his work area. Here he acquired an expertise over the years, which is far beyond the usual journalistic. (…)
Mr. Dr. Ulfkotte always fulfilled all tasks to our full satisfaction. (…)
We are sorry to lose him and thank him for his good services and pleasant cooperation. [...]