[e2021]

I remember when Spiegel did this same sort of travel story through the US and it turned out the author just made most of it up to fit whatever stereotypes he wanted to confirm about americans. Hard to take them seriously after that.

[finiteseries]

Claas Relotious, went on for a decade. Der Spiegel, its editors, its fact checkers, and its readers ate it all right up for years and years.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-deep-pathology-a...

https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-m...

[hef19898]

The Spiegel is great at this kind of storytelling. I came to see them as the BILD for people abl to read snetences with more than 5 words.

[hutzlibu]

While looking down on anyone who reads the Bild and co. and feeling very superior in general.

[Macha]

Welcome to being on the receiving end of a travelogue, I guess.