Media Fakes - ZDF Whistleblower Katrin Seibold / Ukraine image falsification

29.03.2022 | www.kla.tv/22072

Katrin Seibold, a long-time journalist and anchor-woman for ZDF TV, recently spoke out publicly. She left the station after a long inner struggle and reports among other things in an interview with the alternative, independent television station AUF1 about her motives. Katrin Seibold describes an increasing political influence on the reporting even to the point deliberate production of FAKE news. Kla.tv would like to address two concise examples here and illuminate the consequences a little more closely. Example 1: Toxic gas alarm in New York KS: „Well, my example is from a long time ago, but I‘ll share it anyway, because it's a good example, which again reveals the power structures. Mainz is the headquarters of ZDF and I was in the studio in New York with the correspondent there, in 2002/2003. That was shortly before the Iraq war started, meaning that the world community’s attention was in New York, at the UN, where negotiations were being held: how it would start now? What would George W. Bush do? But what was interesting, we in the official media, made fun of the videos of him at that time, just before he then went on the air – George W. Bush making faces or something. That was actually a kind of internet-phenomenon back then, it was already kind of fashionable. Anyway, ZDF Mainz called and said: poisonous gas – there’s probably a toxic gas alarm in New York. Please do a piece about it for the news. And we did some research and once again found nothing, no evidence, but that doesn't mean anything, we first have to (check) – we were not yet on location. But, we didn‘t find a thing. Then the correspondent said: Well, no problem, we'll just have to do it anyway. Then we went to this correspondent's apartment, rang the neighbor's doorbell, gave him some duct-tape and he sealed off the window with it and we filmed this nicely, – you know, because he was afraid that poison gas could penetrate through the window cracks – right, and that's how he did it. Then I was sent with a camera team to gas mask store A and he went with his camera team to gas mask shop B and the assignment was to bring back pictures of gas masks and of people standing in line and, if possible, original sound, i.e. interviews with people who say „I'm afraid of toxic gas“. So, I went there, but there was nothing going on – there were only a few gas masks and mannequins in the shop window. Then we filmed them. You can film something from below, because it looks like a lot, or from above, because then it looks small, etc. – people don't realize this – how this is done in television, but then... there was a call from the producer, he must have found a gas mask store, where he also found people for original soundtracks, because ... ...well, I couldn't interview anyone there, there was neither panic nor was there anyone at all in the store really. Yes, and then that was processed into a piece, into a report, which was then broadcast in mid-February 2003 in the main ZDF program in a current news format with the title: „Alarm Stage Orange“, I think. At that time there were these alarm levels in New York, how high is the panic or how high is the terrorism, the probability of terrorism, that an attack could happen? So that's an example. And you can see that there were agencies, locally in Mainz, that claimed that about New York and we were there and simply did it, but ... ... I‘ll say it now, it was fake. As a result, the portrayal of threatening poison gas attacks served as justification for the 2003 Iraq War. With the U.S. government suggesting to the population a growing acute threat from weapons of mass destruction by Iraq and its ally Al Qaeda. Only two years earlier, the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York took place. Islamists were held responsible. A traumatized, frightened majority of the population now agreed to a U.S. invasion of Iraq. The consequences: hundreds of thousands of dead in Iraq and the exploitation of its raw materials by the USA! Example 2: Right-wing demonstrations in Leipzig Katrin Seibold: „When I covered the Leipzig Book Fair a few years ago, there was a big discussion between two writers from conservative – right wing – publishing houses, and my assignment was to drive up there, as I do every year, and report on the opening ceremony of the Leipzig Book Fair in the Gewandhaus (concert hall). And I was on the road with a camera team on the first day and I was supposed to find “right-wing demonstrators” all over Leipzig. Supposedly there were right-wing demonstrations everywhere. And we just drove through Leipzig and we didn’t find any right-wing demonstrations. Of course, there might have been some, but we didn't find them and we really made an effort and in the evening, in front of the Gewandhaus (concert hall) we found a demo opposing the “right”. So, then I called the editorial office: I'm sorry, I didn't find anything. Here's something against “right-wing”, but that doesn't fit with what we actually wanted to have, of course we'll keep our eyes open in the next few days. And in the evening, the presenter opened the program with the sentence: “At the official opening of the Leipzig Book Fair, right-wing and left-wing demonstrators are taking up positions against each other, not a literal qoute, but similar. And then I was really angry, because I said, how does this happen!? I then wrote an e-mail to everyone the next morning that I was upset about it. And the chief of staff explained it like this: there were about – I don’t know – about 50 agencies that day, that reported of supposedly so many right-wing demos in Leipzig. And then I said: Excuse me, why are you still sending out reporters – on location? Well, you have a reporter on site, if you don't trust her, but believe the agencies, and I told you that we didn't find any demonstrations. Then at least you have to word it differently - then you can say, you hear this and that reported by the news agencies, but our reporter found out this and that, and that's not about me at all, but about the way we learned to do journalism! Anyway, that's what the viewer hears – what the presenter says, of course. Unfortunately, the viewer doesn't hear what we discuss internally. And that's just such a typical example.” As a result, the ongoing stigmatization of government-critical segments of the population as “right-wing fringe groups” has deeply divided society. To this day, the necessary open discourse on questionable government strategies and actions is prevented – discourse which could prevent or steer these policies in much better directions. In the most recent example of the Corona crisis, this weakens united resistance to the extremely profound violations of fundamental rights. This opens the door for the largest redistribution of wealth in history and the worldwide establishment of more and more comprehensive digital control. Obviously, politically motivated orders were implemented by the media for the benefit of a few, whose power and wealth always increase in such crises. The question now arises: Is the pattern of spreading fake news in the past or is this being done again currently? The answer is clearly yes it is being done. For example, false images were used in the coverage of the Ukraine crisis. Here are two examples from BILD-Online: Example 1: “Russians fight their way to Kiev” On February 24, 2022 in the current news about Russian bombardments, BILD-Online faded in sequences of a huge explosion. However, the images were not from the events in Ukraine, but from the year 2015 – from a warehouse explosion with dangerous goods in Tianjin. Example 2: “Invasion! Troops invade” BILD reported about an invasion of Ukraine by the Russians and underlined this with pictures of swarms of parachutists floating down. O-TON: “...like swarms of hornets dropping from the sky...” According to BILD, this is supposed to have happened in Kharkov – a misrepresentation, as BILD has since had to admit. The pictures are actually from 2014 from a military exercise in Russia, which is very easy to see from the original. After seeing images like this, on the one hand, the viewer is shocked. The population is put in fear and terror. On the other hand, this stirs up hatred against the Russian population. Media that spread such propaganda reveal themselves as agitators and henchmen of the warmongers. Martin Ruthenberg sums up what fear leads to. He is another former employee of the public broadcaster and writes in a very readable Open Letter dated November 1th, 2021 to his broadcaster, SWR: “At the same time, fear is the most powerful lever to make people do something they would not do as long as they feel free and safe. That others, in turn, can abuse this lever for their own interests is obvious. This happens all the more frequently the more people live in fear. Inevitably, there will be more attempts at manipulation in such a crisis, which will also be accompanied by a redistribution of power. So more vigilance is needed than usual, not least on the part of public broadcasting.” These lines refer to the Corona coverage, but also apply to all other aspects of a raging information war. Thus, everyone – especially in the coverage of the Ukraine war – is called upon to be very vigilant in questioning the current flood of information, no matter from which side. Free of fear, we will be able to recognize piece by piece the true background and masterminds of every crisis and discover ways out. The complete inspiring Open Letter by Martin Ruthenberg can be found below the broadcast: https://corona-transition.org/IMG/pdf/offener_brief_an_die_gescha_ftsleitung_des_swr.pdf.

from ag./chs.

Sources/Links: Interview AUF1.tv with Katrin Seibold https://auf1.tv/elsa-auf1/unfrei-unehrlich-ungerecht-zdf-3sat-moderatorin-rechnet-mit-ehemaligem-arbeitgeber-ab
Justification of the Iraq War https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begr%C3%BCndung_des_Irakkriegs
Largest wealth redistribution in history Im Schatten der Pandemie: die große Umverteilung: www.kla.tv/16692
Covid Betrug! 80 Gründe für Geld zurück: www.kla.tv/21653
BILD ONLINE: Bilder der gewaltigen Explosion Putin's war on Ukraine: Kiev could fall today Quelle entfernt, noch vorliegend unter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEHtwy-cdEU
Original source images of the explosion in Tianjin: https://youtu.be/993wlZ6XFSs
Pictures of the parachutists Putin's war against Ukraine: Kiev could fall today Source removed, still present under: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEHtwy-cdEU
Origin of the original sequence parachutist: https://faktencheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.323X6KK
www.facebook.com/madeinrussianfederation/videos/684191671734525/
Open letter Martin Ruthenberg https://corona-transition.org/IMG/pdf/offener_brief_an_die_gescha_ftsleitung_des_swr.pdf