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I'd stay far away from the Spiegel. While it has the reputation of a liberal magazine it actually started off as the mouthpiece of the BND. For some weird reaso

I'd stay far away from the Spiegel. While it has the reputation of a liberal magazine it actually started off as the mouthpiece of the BND. For some weird reason it got that reputation when it attacked Adenauer's policies when he and de Gaulle were working on bringing Germany and France closer together. While it somehow has retained this intellectual status to a lot of people it is an outrageous publication, with much better marketing than it has content. It has also hired more and more leadership from tabloids. I'd look into Swiss or French publications. Although most of the French media has also unfortunately been pretty streamlined.

tucosan 4y ago
I second this. It’s mind boggling how bad DER SPEGEL does basic research. I did not find it surprising at all, that the Relotius-scandal^1 happened at DER SPIEGEL. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius#Fabrication_of_stories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius#Fabrication_of_...
- spongebobism 4y ago
  ... and was caught by Der Spiegel! From Wikipedia: "On 19 December 2018, Der Spiegel made public that Relotius had admitted that he had "falsified his articles on a grand scale", inventing facts, persons and quotations in at least 14 of his stories in Der Spiegel, an event now being referred to as Spiegelgate. The magazine uncovered the fraud after a co-author of one of Relotius's articles about a pro-Trump vigilante group in Arizona conducting patrols along the Mexico–United States border, the Spanish-born Spiegel journalist Juan Moreno, became suspicious of the veracity of Relotius's contributions and gathered evidence against him."