#NMDENorddeutscherRundfunkNDRAnjaReschke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkwcIFmukgc https://www.wwwagner.tv/?p=29828 "Thank you so much, Mr. Perkson. Your speech was a great honour and deeply touching because it made so clear to me what has happened this year. I feel incredibly honoured. I feel honoured by your speech. I feel honoured because 80 jury members decided that I should be Journalist of the Year. It's a real compliment, because this is our industry. And yet, today, and even in the last few days when I thought about coming here and driving here, I had a really strange feeling because I thought, 'Okay, so now you're going to be Journalist of the Year in 2015, the year in which our industry, we journalists, are being questioned and attacked like I've never experienced before.' The 'lying press' is attacking us from all sides. When I think about it, 40% don't believe us anymore, we're the 'lying press.' I'm Journalist of the Year, so from their perspective, I would be the Liar of the Year. It's a terrible feeling, I have to say. In fact, that's how it is. Ms. Mils also told me that my The nomination has already generated so many comments, I read them again anyway. You're not supposed to, but I did. There are a lot of nice things, and a lot of nasty things too, but I'm used to it by now. In fact, since that comment, I've been moving around a lot. And you mustn't forget, it's a comment of one minute and 50 seconds. Yes, I mean, that's nothing. One minute and 50 seconds, Tagesthemen, August 5th. Many people were on summer vacation. The weather was even nice; you could barbecue. One minute and 50 seconds, in which I basically just said that you shouldn't just defame other people, or refugees, with hate and incitement. It actually changed so much in my life, and since then I've been in this strange cocktail of feelings. People I encounter, and who write to me--really every day now--wish me to be properly raped by this gang of black people I wanted to bring into the country. And on the other hand, there are people like what actually happened to me earlier when I got on the train at Dammtor, a man came up to me, took off his glove and came towards me. I thought to myself, 'Now you're going to get it,' but he just came up and said, 'You're V. Reschke from NDR.' I said, 'Yes, may I shake your hand?' Thank you very much, thank you very much for your reporting. My goodness, it's a strange, a strange conglomerate or a strange mixture of messiah and object of hatred. But I'm neither. That's not a role I want. I'm not the big shot again, nor am I somehow the person you have to hate now. I have nothing. I'm not an actor. I'm not a politician. I haven't decided anything. I didn't say that refugees should come. I also didn't say that they shouldn't come. I actually only reported, or in this case, commented. My role, as I said, is that of a journalist. But--and I have to admit this--I don't know what that is anymore. What's a bit frightening now is that you've chosen me as Journalist of the Year, and I'm now saying that I don't know what that means anymore. What is my task? What is our task? What are our tools? What do we have to do? This is the uncertainty I feel. And I realise that I'm not alone in this either. I notice it in my editorial office, or rather, in my editorial offices. I also notice it in many articles that have already been published. I've read many of them, and they've formulated insightful articles and thoughts on the matter. I've absorbed them all because I thought, yes, in the hope of finding salvation and somehow sensing what I have to do. I keep coming across the sentence that's often quoted now, and where everyone nods and says, 'Yes, that's exactly right.' What is that quote from Mr. Augstein? Last week I was at Der Spiegel, and I walked through that magnificent hall again. There, the sentence is displayed in large letters. I thought to myself, 'Yes, what is that?' It sounds good. That's it. That's how it has to be done. But honestly, what is it? What does it actually mean? Let's look at this topic of refugees. In the summer of 2015, a noticeably large number of people suddenly came to Germany. They came for whatever reason, with their children, without children, men, single people, and so on. There were poor souls among them who needed help. Some need to provide for them, perhaps even solving our demographic problem, while others see them as invaders threatening our country, whose potential for aggression is unknown, and who will undoubtedly bring a host of crime into the country. So what's the real story? So, what is the right thing to do? I don't know. We reported on one side, we said, 'Yes, this could help,' but we didn't include the other side. I don't know what's going on. We had a good year at Panorama because suddenly, contextualising, evaluating, or commenting journalism experienced a great renaissance. Now, it has to be said that, of course, when you work for the ARD's political magazines and are confronted with many articles over the years, including those from their print editions, you notice that political journalism has always been somewhat downplayed. The political magazines were somewhat meaningless. Therefore, it was very nice for us that we suddenly had the feeling that we also had something to say, and we reported, and we produced great reports, and we tried to somehow contextualise what was happening for the people out there. People come along, and we tried to decode things like the AfD and Pegida, sometimes because people are afraid of them. We also tried to counter these fears by trying to present facts, to say, 'Look, not everyone is a criminal.' All the terrible rapists, so basically, I tried what you're supposed to do: counter them with facts, but it's a bit like with children. You know how it is when a child says there's a monster under the bed, and you say, 'No, look, there's no monster.' It doesn't help; the fear doesn't go away whether there's a monster or not. Facts don't help at all. So, I've found that the more we countered with facts, and the more we said, 'No, the crime statistics don't say anything about it,' and look, I don't even know how many rumours I investigated, the more we reported it, the greater the anger became, the more comments I received, the more emails I got saying things like, 'Look, someone was raped here in [location], [location], and [location], call us, men assaulted people at the swimming pool.' Then I started to investigate. I called lifeguards, I don't even know how many police stations I called in this country, asking, 'Hey, has anyone been raped here?' 'No, okay, all right.' Then I wrote back, and then I got an even longer list with... Even more rumours and even more terrible things that people had done or that refugees might have done, and I thought to myself, this is so frustrating, I'm not getting anywhere, I can't get through to them. Um, and then we still said, okay, that's right. Then Cologne happened. Cologne is a nightmare. Cologne was such a nightmare, I can't imagine it any other way, because Cologne changed so much. So, to say what's going on again, I don't know how you feel, but I still can't say what's going on. To be quite honest, I can't categorise Cologne. To this day, I don't know exactly what happened there, but it was expected of us that we would say so. Now Panorama had the problem that we broadcast on January 7th. A damn deadline, you know, after Christmas and New Year's, you have to have a show ready and prepared because you can't really film anything then. What are you going to do over the holidays? So we had a show finished. Around Monday evening, the first reports came in, and we broadcast on Thursday. On Tuesday, my editorial team and I sat down together and said, okay, well, somehow we don't have to address this, especially us at Panorama, who are now talking about it so often. We had the feeling that there wasn't actually a problem with crime, yes, we had to. We sat there like rabbits, thinking, yes, but what do we do now? We don't even know what happened. The information was so unclear. The Cologne police weren't saying anything concrete. The police chief hadn't even resigned yet. So we just sort of went on and on for hours. We have to send something out now, we have to do television. It's complicated, you can't just write something, you have to film something. So, quite honestly, we broadcast on Thursday and aired the film that had been prepared. It was a disaster. I've never felt so bad in my life. I was standing in that studio. It had happened in Cologne. I knew, or at least my impression was, because the comments online beforehand were so strong, I have to say something about it. I have to contextualise it, I have to find an assessment. But I can't find an assessment. So I said, 'I can't.' I said, 'We're sorry.' Yes, you would expect us to. We would also like to broadcast something about Cologne, but we can't give a well-founded opinion at this moment. So, we bare our souls. Now, one could say, 'I read it in your post, Georg,' that you suggested it was a good moment, a good idea, how we can regain trust in journalism, by simply being honest about our mistakes and our inability to make judgments. Because we mustn't forget Germanwings, how we were all attacked for jumping to conclusions about why that plane crashed, and what all did I broadcast, and which experts didn't all appear on TV and in the live tickers, and I don't know what else, just quick, quick, quick, faster and faster. That was wrong, we realised that. So, Cologne, I couldn't assess it, it didn't help, it only got worse. The anger was so great, we were overwhelmed, I was inundated with such angry comments and angry emails, and even within our own station, of course, there was discussion about how this wasn't right and that we had to assess it. Yes, that's true, I would have preferred to have something about Cologne, I would have liked to have something, but honestly, I didn't have it, we didn't have it, and those are the points where I always think, okay? What is our job, then? Isn't it right that we have to evaluate something when we can't even say what it is? Even now, I think, I believe, ultimately, I've really been thinking about this since August. Yes, I think that we're ultimately building a somewhat false image of journalism, namely the idea that we can report neutrally. I also think that many people expect that; I see it again and again. Um, no, we can't do that. I think we've relied for a very long time on being an elite voice. We're the ones who can go to the minister and ask questions; we're the ones who can travel. We know what it's like; we know it; we broadcast it; we write it; bam! Can you deal with that? Unfortunately, people have noticed that even our reports are always influenced by us. There is no neutrality; not even a news minute is neutral. It's always the person who goes there who has made their selection. I don't have to tell you that; you know that ultimately everyone who makes their selection, who puts their vote on it, if we report again now, there have to be upper limits. Is that right, yes or no? Is it right that Putin is helping Assad? Is it right that... Assad is supported, we don't know if it's right or wrong, and I don't think that's our job either. We're not actors, we're not politicians, we're not the fourth estate, we're just journalists. But then what is our job? I became a journalist, and I still enjoy it because I found it so wonderful, purely for selfish reasons, that you can go anywhere, that I can talk to someone on welfare today and to the CEO of a DAX-listed company tomorrow, that I can look into all kinds of realities and share the wonderful things I experience with other people. Of course, I can try to compare it with reality, I can try to find facts and add them to the narrative, but I will always report it this way: it's always ultimately my own opinion, and I think we need to be more honest about that--my only opinion. So, if you always ask what the solution to our crisis of trust is, I don't know it, I don't know it. I can only hope that authenticity helps because, actually, and I wanted to say this in closing, it's a fantastic time for journalism. As you mentioned, I once wrote a book about the history of Panorama. Panorama was... I've been reading this 50-year-old magazine for ages, and it was only through studying the history of Panorama that I truly understood how this country, the Federal Republic of Germany, came into being and how many things we take for granted today, like freedom of the press and freedom of expression, had to be fought for, how many taboos had to be broken, and who did it? It was critical journalists, yes, critical journalists who repeatedly brought these issues to the forefront and got beaten up for it, and so on. And we all know that when we look back at our historical newspapers and broadcasts, every ten years or so there are anniversaries, and then we dig up all the big old scandals. And I caught myself thinking, 'Wow, the '60s, that was a wild time.' I was a little envious of the KLE (presumably referring to the magazine or similar) because the republic was shaking back then. Things were really happening back then. And I thought to myself, 'Nothing's shaking around here anymore.' Because whether I'm just going to tell the story of how Grandma X was deducted from her health insurance or... He said that the pension contribution won't be increased after all, and now the republic isn't just wobbling anymore, but it's wobbling again, wobbling again. I feel it extremely strongly, and I notice that when the republic wobbles, the kick doesn't exactly get stronger; you feel it in your gut. And I believe, um, with this feeling, we don't have to cave in now, we don't have to say, 'Well, then we can't do it anymore,' or 'We give up.' But I believe it's precisely the moment now where journalism is reorganising itself, where we are once again there for this country and this society, because it's about redefining fundamental social questions. But I believe we can no longer continue with the old elitist role and claim we know what's what. That means my employer, and my, um, my thought is, if I take this prize home now, so that I don't get too weighed down and then have talked everyone down, but rather, one has to look positively ahead. That's what I want to do, too. So, my thought is, if I take this prize home now, I'll hang it on the wall and tell myself, 'Everything's clear.' You're now saying what is, specifically how you feel about it, and you're explaining why you feel that way, and I think we're trying to find out what is and, um, to continue to critically observe this society, but not to act as if we know everything better. Thank you very much for this prize." #2015_ #ToponymEuropeGermanyCologne

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Context https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/12/kl-a-history-of-the-nazi-concentration-camps-nikolaus-wachsmann-review #IRLScholarNikolausWachsmann

#2006_TheThirdReichInPower #2008_TheThirdReichAtWar #IRLHistorianRichardEvans

#PoliticsFascismNaziThirdReich #2007_AConciseHistoryOfTheThirdReich

"Tagesschau As you can see, Twitter works perfectly, even though so many left-wing scum have been fired. The same is true of the Lügenpresse , so you should delete the entire GEZabschaffen [abolish GEZ] ! The woke babbles and doesn't get anything done!" #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseLyingPress GEZ ^[Wikipedia] #LiteralLicenceFeeDEGEZBeitragsserviceVonARDZDFUndDeutschlandradio

"Left-wing moralism is not an obstacle to the next dictatorship, but its prerequisite." #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseLyingPress

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/06/europe/hamburg-protests-g20/index.html #ToponymEuropeGermanyHamburg #OrgIntlGroupOfTwentyG20

"mir stinken die linken![I hate the left ones!]" #OrgClassifPPDEDieLinke #OrgClassifPPDEAfDAlternativeFurDeutschland

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Addendum seemingly, another #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump propaganda stooge - recycling Trump's message, which attempts to vilify legitimate news sources. In this way, Trump is (to some extent) singing from Hitler's play-book Hitler. Hitler labelled media outlets that were deemed to be unsupportive of the Nazi party and its aims 'lügenpresse', which translates as #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseLyingPress ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM #MetaphorSpatialEchoChamber #CampaignHashtagWalkAway ^[Wikipedia]