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BTW, to everyone who enjoys a good laugh about the state of "journalism" in germany; this is a screenshot of a piece of information that the german "Correctiv" published right after Trump won the election:

http://meedia.de/2016/11/09/peinliche-letter-panne-wie-correctiv-hillary-clinton-voreilig-als-praesidentin-feierte/

Basically, it states that Clinton had won the election, and that Trump is acting like a sore loser. And that Trump will now fall into depression because of losing, just like George Foremam when he lost to Muhammed Ali at "Rumple in the jungle".

 

While that is quite funny in itself, what really made this so embarrassing is the fact that the organization "Correctiv" (officially a non-profit organization, but with dubious funding), who published this, is well-known in germany for being made one of the few official german "fact checkers" who are tasked with hunting and flagging "fake news" on german Facebook. And this was not written by some drunk apprentice, it was written by their founder David Schraven himself. Apparently, he wrote the text earlier that night, absolutely sure that his favoured candidate Clinton would win, then went to bed and let the information be automatically published at a certain time in the morning. Asked about the incident, he blamed "technical problems".

Strangely, while this was obviously extremely embarrassing for Correctiv and its founder, not a single MSM reported on Correctiv's embarrassing incident. You're also not going to find even the slightest mention of it in the Wikipedia articles on "Correctiv", neither in the german nor in the english version. Whenever someone tried to edit the Wikipedia articles in order to mention the incident (or certain donors), this information is instantly being removed.