Immoral painting

The black sheep of the journalist herd are called Tom Kummer or Jayson Blair. They falsify or copy their articles out of laziness or a desire for recognition. What is forgotten is that the media distort or abbreviate more often than they reinvent. As

The black sheep of the journalist herd are called Tom Kummer or Jayson Blair. They falsify or copy their articles out of laziness or a desire for recognition. What is forgotten is that the media distort or abbreviate more often than they reinvent. When Burkhard Müller-Ullrich first took the "zeitgeist amplifiers in an indignant tone" to court in 1996, he was cut by colleagues but celebrated by the public as a disenchanter, whether it was forest dieback, the legend of organ harvesting or the false martyr Taslima Nasrin: the experienced editor researched the still instructive favorite subjects of enlightening journalism. And comes to the conclusion that certain topics and groups of people trigger Pavlovian reflexes in the "solidarists" of the guild. Roger Köppel would be the right person to finally rewrite this important book for Swiss conditions.
Media fairy tale. The perpetrators of misconduct in journalism by Burkhard Müller-Ullrich. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1998. 254 pages, Fr. 14.30.
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