I came across [2] as well, yesterday, and particularly liked the conclusion: Slightly improved Google translation: „One does not write about arguments, ideas

I came across [2] as well, yesterday, and particularly liked the conclusion: Slightly improved Google translation: „One does not write about arguments, ideas and concerns, but about the people who supposedly have them and about how they are, how they look and how they live, where one has met them, how dangerous, or at least exotic it was to meet them at all, and that the wind lashed against the quay wall, when splendor and misery came together at night in the room no. such-and-such. But as long as one writes in such a way, because one thinks in such a way, the case of Relotius will only lead to appeals to conscience and to the condemnation of those without conscience. The underlying issue, the storytelling kitsch, will not change.“