>Der Spiegel published the final investigation report in May 2019, concluding that "no indications were found that anyone at DER SPIEGEL was aware of the fabrication, helped cover them up or otherwise participated in them"
No worries, no one has bad intentions. They're just thoroughly incompetent.
There is also former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson who, in his former career as “journalist” was fired for fabricating stories about the European Union that contributed to the climate of Euroskepticism that ultimately led to Brexit, and Johnson’s rise to power. Who says crime doesn’t pay?
"clearly politically motivated." - interesting, how so?
Most of the people I talked about it see his forgeries as "simple" work for awards/compliments: Everything he wrote/reported seemed believable, because it was in range/sync with events/storys/news that actually happened.
Again, I'd love to know how to identify his/the political motivation.
> because it was in range/sync with events/storys/news that actually happened.
As far as I understand he never wrote anything special or world changing, he took stories you already heard a million times and created pieces of fiction that pandered to the sensibilities of his core audience. A story about the life in a small town in the US? Boring! Lets add in a bit of racism here, a literal Trump cult there, re-frame it as some backwater town in the middle of the woods and a few more changes later you have a story people want to read, not quite "The Call of Cthulhu" but maybe enough to bridge the gap to the next award winning piece of journalistic fiction about the just as colorfully exaggerated struggles of a refuge family on their way to Europe or the life and motivations of freedom fighters in remote corners of the world.
The article says a Lightning to USB-C cable will still be included. So you can use any USB-C charger which can delivery the necessary power (as with the iPhone 11).
In the field of Technical Writing there are whole books written on how to write for human and machine translation. Main takeaway: consistency and unambiguity.
A bit like Daimler-Benz between 1985-95 when they tried to get into aerospace and electronics under CEO Edzard Reuter, which failed miserably and cost the company around 25 Billion dollars. Some called it the biggest destruction of capital in Germany in peacetime
GM, which was perhaps the most powerful corporation on earth at the time, made the exact same mistakes. They bought Ross Perot's Electronic Data Systems. They bought Hughes Aircraft (Hughes Electronics, DirecTV, etc). That was all in the mid 1980s at the end of GM's run when they had no idea what to do with their position and riches (the Japanese would solve that 'problem' for them shortly thereafter).
I guess at some value of money the best way is to just create a hedge fund, and put your riches into diversified instruments. Sure it won't give you exponentially increasing riches, but at least you will likely see a percent or two worth returns above inflation. And given how big the money would be, it would workout just fine.
Also its just plain scary how much money one can lose and quickly.
The fusion between Daimler and Chrysler has been estimated to cost 75 billion and failed too. It was a complete disaster in the name of "shareholder value"
