Claas Relotius: Er hat sein Talent missbraucht https://t.co/W7htj1oOJQ pic.twitter.com/KtZAsHwMOZ— WELT (@welt) December 19, 2018
The Guardian: Der Spiegel says top journalist faked stories for years
Publication says Claas Relotius committed journalistic fraud ‘on a grand scale’.
The German news magazine Der Spiegel has been plunged into chaos after revealing that one of its top reporters had falsified stories over several years.
The media world was stunned by the revelations that the award-winning journalist Claas Relotius had, according to the weekly, “made up stories and invented protagonists” in at least 14 out of 60 articles that appeared in its print and online editions, warning that other outlets could also be affected.
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WNU Editor: Regular readers of this blog know that I am very harsh when it comes to news reporting that I believe is fake and/or biased .... but is presented as factual and accurate. Being someone who reads Der Spiegel and who posts their English stories on WNU, this is very disappointing. The editors at Der Spiegel fell asleep at their job, and my guess is that they choose to believe what Claas Relotius was writing (because it fit into their own biases and view of the world) rather than check his sources and information. The fact that he was able to get away with it for years is truly mind-boggling.
