When it became known that Philipp Hildebrand's wife had made foreign exchange transactions, the Weltwoche launched an extremely aggressive campaign demanding the immediate resignation of the President of the National Bank. As a result, Hildebrand was not found to have committed any legally relevant misconduct, but the duty of care seemed to have been violated. Hildebrand was therefore left with no choice. He had to resign. In other professions, too, decision-makers are subject to ethical requirements as well as legal ones. In journalism, the main task is to report objectively. There is an explicit duty of care designed to prevent the spread of false or falsified information.
At the end of the 1990s, Tom Kummer from Bern romania rcs data was exposed as a cunning forger after years of work. As a result, the two editors-in-chief of the Süddeutsche's magazine lost their jobs. Roger Köppel, however, who as head of the Tages-Anzeiger's "Magazine" had also published a large number of Kummer stories, escaped this sanction. Years later, he - now the owner of the Weltwoche - surprised everyone with one of the nowadays much sought-after, but very disheveled "noble pens" that he was determined to pin to his editor-in-chief hat: "Everyone deserves a second chance. Welcome back, Tom Kummer," he announced proudly. This was gross negligence. According to his own statements, Tom Kummer can only maintain the literary standard of his fake stories by cheating. His increasingly brazen plagiarism then led to his second exposure. Tom Kummer's explanation: the bosses were addicted to my texts. "Nobody could be so stupid as not to realize that I couldn't have delivered it one-to-one and in this form by a star."