Faced with affidavits from participants, Correctiv backpedals virtually completely. What remains are a tattered gov't, stupid MSM, and loads of gaslit people
Your referencing Watergate seems apt, though I doubt this whole affair will lead to any serious consequences for any of the major players.
I have started to think of Correctiv's reporting as perhaps more like the infamous Steel Dossier in which political oppo "research" was subsequently laundered into a smear campaign discrediting Trump's presidency and simultaneously deflected from Clinton's woefully incompetent presidential campaign.
In this case, the Correctiv Dossier has been used to deflect attention from a woefully incompetent German government and simultaneously launch a smear campaign discrediting the opposition party AfD as a legitimate electoral option for disgruntled voters.
I can't top this and I don't want to - this is beyond stupid. Fire all of them, is what their employer needs to do. Fire and blacklist them from journalistic work.
Paralleling it, we have a nice little brough-ha-ha going in our media right now.
Henrik Jönsson, classic liberal blogger and podcaster and succesful businessman, has for several years run a Youtube-channel criticising the swedish Socialist Democrat party and their politics and history (because they have been in power for 75% of the time since we got semi-universal franchise).
In an interview in DN, Dagens Nyheter (the paper all the politicians read) Magdalena Andersson, leader of the SDP and almost-but-not-really the first female PM a few years back, openly asked "Who funds Henrik Jönsson? In the interest of whom is he attacking us?".
This started a ruckus because a politician, and the leader of the major party at that openly attacking a journalist is still very much a taboo - and the journalists are very much a guild in how they think.
Andersson then claimed that she just answered a question from DN's interviewer, but DN's editor replied with that this is a lie from Andersson, and offering to make the whole tape of the interview public to proce it.
Andersson's press-secretary and token ethnic hire the name of whom I can't be bothered to look up replied that all of this hoo-hah was still Henrik Jönsson's fault. . . implication being that by existing and criticising the Party, he is a threat and problem.
It is nice to see the total PASOKification take hold.
Your referencing Watergate seems apt, though I doubt this whole affair will lead to any serious consequences for any of the major players.
I have started to think of Correctiv's reporting as perhaps more like the infamous Steel Dossier in which political oppo "research" was subsequently laundered into a smear campaign discrediting Trump's presidency and simultaneously deflected from Clinton's woefully incompetent presidential campaign.
In this case, the Correctiv Dossier has been used to deflect attention from a woefully incompetent German government and simultaneously launch a smear campaign discrediting the opposition party AfD as a legitimate electoral option for disgruntled voters.
I can't top this and I don't want to - this is beyond stupid. Fire all of them, is what their employer needs to do. Fire and blacklist them from journalistic work.
Paralleling it, we have a nice little brough-ha-ha going in our media right now.
Henrik Jönsson, classic liberal blogger and podcaster and succesful businessman, has for several years run a Youtube-channel criticising the swedish Socialist Democrat party and their politics and history (because they have been in power for 75% of the time since we got semi-universal franchise).
In an interview in DN, Dagens Nyheter (the paper all the politicians read) Magdalena Andersson, leader of the SDP and almost-but-not-really the first female PM a few years back, openly asked "Who funds Henrik Jönsson? In the interest of whom is he attacking us?".
This started a ruckus because a politician, and the leader of the major party at that openly attacking a journalist is still very much a taboo - and the journalists are very much a guild in how they think.
Andersson then claimed that she just answered a question from DN's interviewer, but DN's editor replied with that this is a lie from Andersson, and offering to make the whole tape of the interview public to proce it.
Andersson's press-secretary and token ethnic hire the name of whom I can't be bothered to look up replied that all of this hoo-hah was still Henrik Jönsson's fault. . . implication being that by existing and criticising the Party, he is a threat and problem.
It is nice to see the total PASOKification take hold.