The excitement about Annalena Baerbock’s copied text passages is a case for Korinthenkacker, thinks stern-Reporter Axel Vornbäumen.
Stern reporter Axel Vornbäum believes the plagiarism allegations against Annalena Baerbock are exaggerated. His colleague Kerstin Herrnkind has a completely different opinion. You can read your comment here.
Annalena Baerbock made it into the topics of the day on Tuesday evening, which in this case was not particularly good news – especially not for herself. Spokesman Jens Riewa read the following message for exactly 27 seconds: “There is against the Greens’ candidate for Chancellor, Baerbock Plagiarism allegations. She is said to have copied passages in her book ‘Now. How we renew our land’ and not named the authors, according to the Austrian media scientist Weber. The Greens reject the accusation and describe the allegations as an attempt at character assassination. who published the book said that no copyright infringement could be identified. ” That’s it, Canada follows. The heat wave.
If you want to do something with it – please. Everything you need is in this Baerbock report: The accusation (plagiarism). The source (Austrian media scientist). The counter-speech of the Greens (character assassination). The third opinion: (publisher can not see anything).
Baerbock’s credibility shaken?
But there is also something else: There is also the Gravitas of the “Tagesthemen”, which obviously considered the event so significant that they considered it worth reporting at all and even placed it in second place in their brief news block. And there are – of course – the well-known inaccuracies Baerbock’s in writing her curriculum vitae as a supposedly fitting background. For all those who don’t want to know exactly, the short circuit now applies: Oops, she did it again! There will be something to it. For all those who like it politically, this is true anyway. CSU General Secretary Markus Blume dutifully rejoiced that Baerbock’s credibility was “once again” shaken.
You don’t have to be a supporter of the Greens to consider the allegation in the reported case to be exaggerated. The standards have slipped when in one, let’s call it: non-fiction, in which a candidate for chancellor develops her political ideas, passages are not allowed to appear that have already been formulated elsewhere in this way or something similar. Copy-and-paste in this case is more a question of pragmatism than morality.
Pill-Palle in its purest form
At this point, one should point out again: After all, it is not a dissertation. The allegations contain almost tragicomic traits when the said Austrian media scientist “proves” that the list of ten accession states to the EU was taken from a brochure of the “Federal Agency for Political Education”. This is Pill-Palle in its purest form. Forecast: Anyone who blames the Annalena Baerbock and thus denies her qualification as Chancellor would presumably not have chosen her anyway.
It is one of the less noble side effects of an election campaign that the respective top candidates of the parties are examined according to all the rules of the art for suitability and strength of character. Thats alright. And it is by no means always fair. But if the Korinthenkacker believe that they can determine the political discourse, then something is going terribly wrong.
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