Update from 25.05.21: The Wall Street Journal has now published an article on the origin of the coronavirus. Exclusive research published.
One thing will certainly be missing from the various 2020 annual reviews: the self-critical admission by public broadcasters and private publishers that, in the year just now coming to an end, they once again failed, in many cases and in a blatant manner, to deliver what their contributors and purchasers are entitled to: investigative, or at least conscientious, research and the renunciation of any appearance of corruption.
Some examples:
- In 2020, grateful recipients were again found for the 50.000 euros awarded annually in honour of a Nazi entrepreneur and concentration camp planner at the Herbert Quandt Media Prize. The supposed clarification of the company's dark history is thus reduced to absurdity.
- Although the coronavirus has been and continues to be reported on around the clock, one crucial question has been discussed far too rarely: How did the Chinese leadership manage to contain the virus's global spread – also through its influence in the WHO? to cover up and possibly even to promote them specifically (see also “rage“ by Bob Woodward).
- Why do we occasionally read about the concentration camps in Xinjiang and a “cultural genocide” against the Uighurs, while the ongoing genocide that has been going on for many years actual genocide against the Uighurs and Falun Gong, with an estimated 1,5 million deaths from illegal organ harvesting, is hardly reported at all despite political appeals, including from the EU Parliament?
- Why was the illegal war of aggression Azerbaijan and Turkey against independent Nagorno-Karabakh only clearly identified as such by a few media outlets? As if "fighting in the Caucasus" had "broken out" like a natural disaster? The one-sided Turkish-Azerbaijani view that "under international law, Nagorno-Karabakh belongs to Azerbaijan" was often presented as fact (Tagesschau, news agencies). Only a few media outlets sent their correspondents or reported on the attacks on Armenians in France and Germany.
- The Wirecard case was also hardly presented as what it is above all: an almost complete failure of the Business journalism in GermanyEven the criminal complaint filed by BaFin against journalists from the British Financial Times, who had to investigate the scandal on their own and against the resistance of state regulators, was simply acknowledged in this country.
And what will the coming year be like? Hardly any better: The next Nazi Journalist Prize has already been scheduled, China's false economic and corona numbers are presented without footnotes, the genocidal rhetoric the presidents of Turkey and Azerbaijan continue to receive little attention and the daily murder of thousands of “organ donors“ in China will probably remain hidden from the German public in the future.
Well then: Happy New Year!
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