Last but not least: An article to forget

 
The news magazine Facts, selig, had spread untrue facts in a report about an IV patient, moreover violated its duty to consult and then refused to correct facts that were proven to be false. The Press Council found clear words for this approach. In January 2007, the magazine, which has since been discontinued, reported under the title "Dizziness after the accident" about a man who received an IV pension following a whiplash injury. The writer bent the facts in such a way that they became evidence that it was not the doctors but the lawyers who had created the condition known as whiplash. He even went so far as to claim that the lawyer had agreed a fee with the client on a contingency basis, which did not correspond to the facts. But that's not all, the journalist also got the details wrong and wrote that the IV pensioner had his own computer business. Facts should have corrected these and other points not mentioned in the SDA report immediately, the Press Council found. However, a counterstatement was not suitable for this, especially as Fact had stuck to his account until his death.