Reply #8: volunteering [View All]

[reorg]

Hi,

since I could use some practice, I'm willing to do some parts.

Not sure if it's really worth the effort, though.

I have seen the ARD documentary and read parts of the article series, the gist of it being your typical "intelligence failure" excuse.

They seem to assume a lot of things and never feel the need to prove anything. Like some other "documentaries" / reports on 9/11 it is in large parts a re-fictionalized account of information the source of which is often not disclosed. IOW, it is presumably the German police and intelligence version of events, told by Stern and ARD as if their reporters had been present at the events themselves.


However, it could be worse, and the Stern is by all means not as bad as the Sun. They reached their nadir with the fake Hitler diaries in the mid-eighties, but since their relapse, with an inventive reporter who completely faked a number of reports for Stern TV, I never heard anything particularly embarassing about them.

The Stern's latest scoop was a picture of thirty years ago, focusing on our current Green foreign minister, protected by leather clothes and a motor bike helmet, and accompanied by a few equally clad supporters, hitting and kicking at a single police officer lying on the ground during a riot in Frankfurt.