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So As can now be read on “Spiegel.de”, the matter must be considered to be correctly described: “Spahn’s husband’s employer sold masks to the Ministry of Health” The employer is the Hubert Burda Media company. And in fact they had FFP2 masks produced and sold or sent to the ministry, 570,000 in total.
Burda’s own board member Bernhard Kallen ran for the campaign in April 2020; Burda was awarded the contract following the usual award procedure. The company’s representative office in Berlin is headed by Daniel Funke, who is married to Jens Spahn.
Is that a scandal?
That’s probably only if you package the story as “Spiegel” initially did in tabloid form, under the headline “Jens Spahn’s husband’s company sold masks to the Ministry of Health.” This suggests the impression that Daniel Funke himself runs a company that makes masks and that his husband, the minister, is his job. in family thrown off.
This is the only way to get excited, that alone gets the lateral thinkers and the AfD cheering. The process is, if Burda’s description is to be followed, less exciting: In April 2020, when the federal government was urgently looking for mask makers, “they offered to help with the procurement of masks.” Thanks to a small stake in a platform company in Singapore, they wanted to get involved, first they paid for the masks themselves and then they charged the Ministry of Health. The masks were delivered at a unit price of $ 1,736. The total price was $ 989,520. Daniel Funke was not informed or involved “at any time”, no commissions were paid to Burda employees. It was a “pure offer of help”, not a deal.
On the “Spiegel”, of course, things looked very different for a long time. And it determined the broadcast of the hot “news” that was not even in a news movie with us.
The specialized service “Meedia”, which tells the story that Jan Fleischhauer (who was on “Spiegel” and is now on “Focus”) on Twitter had announced, unveiled, not in vain that the story of “Spiegel” attracted much more attention on the Internet than the representation of Burda in its own right. The article in “Spiegel”, according to Meedia, was “probably also due to the misleading presentation, after interactions on social networks, the most successful German newspaper article of the weekend (74,300 interactions on Facebook and Twitter)”.
The specialized service also apologized for the headline: “We understand that the original headline can, by itself, create a misleading impression. Therefore, writes the “Spiegel”, have changed.
As we are very familiar with editorial changes, we constantly make them ourselves and we know that some readers, even if they are believed to be correct and informed, immediately consider them an act of censorship, we press our colleagues from the “mirror” Fingers crossed so that the modified article has even more readers than the original text. “
Or should Jan Fleischhauer be right with his judgment? “This is investigative journalism going crazy. Motto: Something will get stuck. Let the matter reach the AfD and the Left Party: also clear. They consider all government or business representatives to be corrupt. “
In any case, that shouldn’t be the scandal that brought down Jens Spahn.
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