Borderline journalism

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In borderline journalism , the author mixes reality and fiction or publishes old texts with a new date. So he mostly tries to manipulate the reader - who is usually left in the dark about it . The term borderline journalism was coined by the editors of the Süddeutsche Zeitung ; the author Tom Kummer then used it as a euphemism for fictitious interviews that he had sold to various print media .

According to journalistic criteria, borderline journalism is not journalism, at best a genre of literature, at worst fraud . The working method is not compatible with the German press code, according to which rumors and assumptions must be clearly identified as such.

Borderline journalism is above all a consequence of the ever tougher competition on the media market and between freelance journalists . Both try to stay in the business for readers and circulation and to distinguish themselves. The advancing digitization makes more and more texts and text excerpts available that anyone can copy (see " Copy and Paste ").

Siegfried Weischenberg began the keynote address for the MainzerMedienDisput 2006 on the state of journalism with the example of Border-Online.

See also

• Gonzo journalism
• Tabloid
• populism
• Media manipulation
• Functions of the mass media
• Media democracy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 11th MainzerMedienDisput "What should become of journalism now?" Keynote by Prof. Dr. Weischenberg, Institute for Journalism, University of Hamburg (doc; 66 kB) www.mediendisput.de. Retrieved June 11, 2009.

Web links

• Article: On sorrow with the Münchhausen family
• Grenzgänger - Article about Tom Kummer ( Memento from February 18, 2009 in the web archive archive.today )
• Ethics of journalistic reporting (PDF file; 125 kB)
• Literature and journalism
• Journalism in Germany. Theses on the present and future of a profession . Lecture by Prof. Dr. Thorsten Quandt, FU Berlin, on October 19, 2007 at the University of Munich ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.9 MB)