Does it help to find the truth?
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 6:22 am
The trial against a well-known weather presenter was supposed to be about using legal means to find out whether the accused is guilty or not. But the involvement of the so-called fourth power has long since pushed this into the background. Even the "Spiegel" is not above devoting many pages to the private life of a weatherman, while its court reporter blatantly takes the defendant's side. And the otherwise renowned "Zeit" goes a step further. It even interferes in the defendant's defense strategy, criticizes his lawyers and insinuates a change of direction.
In doing so, the "Zeit" journalist Sabine switzerland rcs data Rückert, her name alone being mentioned here, has been guilty of several journalistic mortal sins. In her major article "Guilty on suspicion", a rare low point in the "Zeit" dossiers, she criticizes the defendant's lawyer at the time: "A defense attorney who does not take up arms for his client runs the risk of inadvertently conveying the unspoken, fatal message that the accusation is true." The gentleman is a fool, but Ms Rückert knows how to remedy the situation.
After her public broadside in the "Zeit" newspaper, she wrote to her former lawyer privately by email: "We can only come together if your defense is professionalized in the sense suggested. To do this, you should consider bringing in a colleague who is also up to the task of dealing with proceedings of this kind. If you have read my book, you know who I would choose in such a case."
In doing so, the "Zeit" journalist Sabine switzerland rcs data Rückert, her name alone being mentioned here, has been guilty of several journalistic mortal sins. In her major article "Guilty on suspicion", a rare low point in the "Zeit" dossiers, she criticizes the defendant's lawyer at the time: "A defense attorney who does not take up arms for his client runs the risk of inadvertently conveying the unspoken, fatal message that the accusation is true." The gentleman is a fool, but Ms Rückert knows how to remedy the situation.
After her public broadside in the "Zeit" newspaper, she wrote to her former lawyer privately by email: "We can only come together if your defense is professionalized in the sense suggested. To do this, you should consider bringing in a colleague who is also up to the task of dealing with proceedings of this kind. If you have read my book, you know who I would choose in such a case."