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Germany Scandal: undercover journalist played racist in to make anti-Islamist PEGIDA look bad
10News.DK ^ | 1/2/15 | Nicolai Sennels

Posted on 01/02/2015 8:21:50 PM PST by tellw

The Pegida movement calls the media “Lügepresse” (lying press), because it does not depict the consequences and dangers of Islamic mass-immigration properly. The below incidence, where an undercover journalists is interviewed by other journalists, and uses the interview to depict the Pegida movement as half-racist, confirms Pegida’s concern about the media’s honesty. The undercover journalist used to work at the interviewing journalists’ station, NDR, before he switched to RTL – meaning that he might know (and may even have colluded with) the interviewers who interview the fake “demonstrator”. 29 percent of Germans find the demonstrations “justified because of the degree of influence that Islam was having on life in Germany.”

Translated from Lessentiel:

“A reporter from the German private broadcaster RTL went undercover and mixed with the Pegida demonstration in Dresden. He wanted to talk with participants of the demonstration. But something happened: A team of journalists from the ARD political magazine “Panorama”, which is produced by the NDR, interviewed the undercover reporter.

“The Islamization has a broad impact on our daily lives,” he said willingly into the camera. We feel it “on the road, in a residential area. Sometimes I think: Are we really still in Germany?” the man said. “When you go out, there are quite a lot of Turks. Many of them are nice, but they are becoming so many, that you start thinking: Are we really still German in Germany,” he says. …

After the controversial statements the undercover journalist got fired. “We will no longer use this colleague. He has committed an error that is inexcusable,” said the head of the RTL-country Studios East, Thomas Praekelt. “He should not provoke or encourage persecution, let alone other journalists play a role for other journalists.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; europeanunion; germany; lugepresse; nicolaisennels; panorama; pegida; studioseast; thomaspraekelt; turkey

1 posted on 01/02/2015 8:21:50 PM PST by tellw
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To: tellw

Many a time I watched a reporter ask a fellow travler in the newsroom a Question, get the answer they wanted and type “Some people believe that...” when writing the article.

When called on it they reply, “Well it’s true isn’t it” John is a person and thats what they believe!”

MANY times.


2 posted on 01/02/2015 8:25:57 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (1`)
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To: tellw

From 2006: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1610142/posts


3 posted on 01/02/2015 8:30:02 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: tellw

disinformation in action.


4 posted on 01/02/2015 9:17:13 PM PST by 9thLife (Barack Hussein Obama is one of them.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

And if they can’t find John then they invent him. Who will know John doesn’t really exist?


5 posted on 01/02/2015 11:27:43 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong

“....there’s a little Tuttle left in all of us. In fact, you might say that all of us together made up Tuttle.”


6 posted on 01/02/2015 11:29:49 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Norm Lenhart

60 MINUTES does this all the time: “Some have said your policies are right wing racist hateful Nazi. Reaction?”

Libs brought insulting signs to Tea Party events as they knew those would be the only ones to make the news. Saw one outed afterwards once or twice.

Immigration is invasion without having to fire a shot. Absolutely insane we allow it, but Ted Kennedy started that rot repealing what was a sensible immigration policy.


7 posted on 01/02/2015 11:49:44 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Robert DeLong

Sounds a bit like the tactics of the Liberals toward the Tea Party—The focus on the one Yahoo with a Confederate Flag (hired to play a racist by someone). Their could be 500 signs, 700 US flags but the only picture will be the Confederate battle flag in the news. And if any blacks are in the protestors—they will be cut out to make it look all white.


8 posted on 01/03/2015 12:34:16 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: TigerClaws

“60 MINUTES does this all the time: “Some have said your policies are right wing racist hateful Nazi. Reaction?”

Which would be answered “Well that depends on who those people were saying that. Would you care to tell me so that I can face my accuser personally on camera? Because I have no fear of what I will say. You could invite them on the set right now because several of them are in the building as we speak, employed by this network, aren’t they?”...if in fact the GOP was not playing its part as the pressure relief valve for the uniparty.


9 posted on 01/03/2015 12:41:04 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (1`)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Yep, that’s because all liberals world wide follow the same game plans established by the communists. Attack the conservatives by hook or by crook.


10 posted on 01/03/2015 6:26:23 AM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: tellw

Say Germany have journalists just like we do who knew.


11 posted on 01/03/2015 8:54:21 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
He wanted to talk with participants of the demonstration. But something happened: A team of journalists from the ARD political magazine "Panorama", which is produced by the NDR, interviewed the undercover reporter.
And I'm sure he and they weren't in cahoots.
12 posted on 01/03/2015 8:56:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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