#1 2007-11-04 19:45:19
In what looks to me like a breech of journalistic ethics, a reporter interviewed a man, published the interview, and then filed a private lawsuit against the subject of his interview because he was offended by the subject’s views.
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#2 2007-11-04 20:08:41
fnord wrote:
In what looks to me like a breech of journalistic ethics, a reporter interviewed a man, published the interview, and then filed a private lawsuit against the subject of his interview because he was offended by the subject’s views.
Fnord, please stop me if you've heard me say this before, because I've repeated it to any who'll listen for -30- years.
ANY time you hear some fuckwit describe him or herself as a journalist, loud alarms should ring in your head. Journalist is a Charlatan synomym, ok?
edit: For those who've just joined us, Spanish forever bent my mind during the wonder years. English is my second language
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#3 2007-11-04 21:58:57
"German Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Ulf Poschardt said the magazine wanted to confront Germans with the reality of an ideology that too many of them secretly approve, according to recent opinion polls."
This seems analogous to the US military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy re homos in the armed services, and suggests that Germans don't care if there are Nazis as long as no one acts Nazi in public.
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#4 2007-11-05 03:24:42
choad wrote:
For those who've just joined us, Spanish forever bent my mind during the wonder years. English is my second language
Madres del dios - That explains so much.
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#5 2007-11-05 17:25:58
"It is illegal in Germany to glorify Hitler, deny the Holocaust and to repeat National Socialist propaganda, including emblems and greetings."
Why doesn't he sue the journo right back for entrapment? Despite the subject matter, this is a pretty perverse way to conduct an interview. It's anti-free speech, but I suppose that's your point. It's also not the US, so the 1st Amendment doesn't apply, even though it seems like "natural law" and should be observed in any country calling itself civilized.
Unfortunately, our nation's history of genocide is a few centuries older, and we've gotten rather lax about preserving the memory of the people we slaughtered to create our idyllic society. A few town and county names, a casino or two. While I don't personally believe modern Germans should be browbeaten into accepting their own history, it's a shitty thing to do--and wholly non-objective--to obtain evidence against somebody under false pretenses. We technically don't allow that here, either.
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