Just finished reading @DerSPIEGEL's report on how Claas #Relotius duped them, and all I can say is #factchecking clearly means something different in Germany, because most of what he got away with never would have flown at a US magazine with fact-checkers.http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/claas-relotius-reporter-forgery-scandal-a-1244755.html …
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Yea. I'm not particularly happy about the newspaper landscape in the US. But every time I'm really down about it, I think about the German newspapers, and it's not that bad. Interestingly, German TV news is imo much better than most US TV news.
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On second thought: The recent bloomberg supply-chain piece is a pretty powerful counter-example to the claim that factchecking works fundamentally better in the US.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies … - which looks more and more like it's basically not true.
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