Claas Relotius received journalism awards and got past fact checkers of the most important German press by selectively inventing facts that powerfully confirmed the world view of his audience. A journalist is expected to selectively *collect* these facts, not to invent them.
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Not sure: the Spiegel built a reputation to care about getting facts right (unlike say, Focus), and understood that this was much of their value proposition. People seemed to have mostly been disenchanted with the lack of NPOV, which is a different thing. They just trusted him.
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