Reinbold’s claim here that “the country’s media system provides a protective shield against disinformation campaigns” has to be the most disingenuous claim ever made by a fake news merchant.
Back in early spring, I came to note the public TV effort to create ARD’s ‘Faktenfinder’. They begged upon the public to please come and use their fact-finding service, and that they would be the absolute place to put down disinformation campaigns.
No one cites statistics....but I doubt if more than 500 Germans a day hit on Faktenfinder. If you brought this up with any German under the age of twenty-five....probably less than a thousand have used it since day one.
The issue is that German public TV needs to be continually fact-checked every single day. I sat last night and watched a Hamburg story unfold...some ‘poor’ Italian kid left over from the Hamburg Summit on charges of violence. Fabio...the ‘poor’ 18 year old. His mother weeping and German public TV telling a woeful story of his unfair arrest. All slanted in creation. Then I kinda asked the magic question....who paid for Fabio to travel from Italy to Hamburg? It’s obvious that the German news folks weren’t going to ever ask that question. Hired teenage protest-thug. They just wanted to make you feel sorry for the poor Italian kid and his mother.