{"id":1278,"date":"2014-11-08T19:14:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T00:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2014-11-08T19:14:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T00:14:02","slug":"german-politicians-are-us-puppets-oriental-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1278","title":{"rendered":"\u2018German politicians are US puppets\u2019\u00a0|\u00a0Oriental Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orientalreview.org\/2014\/11\/07\/german-politicians-are-us-puppets\/\">\u2018German politicians are US puppets\u2019\u00a0|\u00a0Oriental Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20px !important; text-align: left; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\u201cNow the Americans are even considering blowing up a nuclear power plant in Ukraine and then insisting that the culprits were either separatists or Russians,\u201d claims the German journalist\u00a0<strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Udo Ulfkotte,<\/strong>\u00a0former correspondent from\u00a0<em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/em>, one of the largest German newspapers. He has published a book,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #e8a02c; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kopp-verlag.de\/Gekaufte-Journalisten.htm?websale8=kopp-verlag&amp;pi=939100\" target=\"_blank\"><em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Gekaufte Journalisten<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(\u201cPurchased Journalists\u201d),\u00a0<strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">in which he describes how American and German politicians sway the German media, so that those journalists give the desired spin to world events<\/strong>. Ulfkotte claims that reporters are urged to bias their writing primarily to favor the American position and to oppose Russia. Udo Ulfkotte spoke to about how exactly this occurs and about the path his life is taking today after these revelations were made public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20px !important; text-align: left; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Q: Mr. Ulfkotte, you\u2019ve said that you were given a lot of money to write pro-American articles. How profitable is to be a pro-American journalist in Germany?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20px !important; text-align: left; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Udo Ulfkotte:<\/strong>\u00a0I didn\u2019t get money \u2013 I got gifts. Things like gold watches, diving equipment, and trips with accommodations in five-star hotels. I know many German journalists who at some point were able to take advantage of this to buy themselves a vacation home abroad.\u00a0<em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">But much more important than the money and gifts is the fact that you\u2019re offered support if you write pieces that are pro-American or pro-NATO.<\/em>\u00a0If you don\u2019t do it, your career won\u2019t go anywhere \u2013 you\u2019ll find yourself assigned to sit in the office and sort through letters to the editor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20px !important; text-align: left; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Q: According to what you\u2019ve said, journalists are corrupted surreptitiously, by inviting them for all-expense-paid trips to the US. But do serious professionals really sell themselves for so little?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20px !important; text-align: left; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018German politicians are US puppets\u2019\u00a0|\u00a0Oriental Review. \u201cNow the Americans are even considering blowing up a nuclear power plant in Ukraine and then insisting that the culprits were either separatists or Russians,\u201d claims the German journalist\u00a0Udo Ulfkotte,\u00a0former correspondent from\u00a0Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the largest German newspapers. He has published a book,\u00a0Gekaufte Journalisten\u00a0(\u201cPurchased Journalists\u201d),\u00a0in which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[462,512,553,655,694,834],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-nato","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}