“This is a typical journalistic statement: It is correct, but it is not the truth.”

—  Helmut Kohl

Das ist eine klassische journalistische Behauptung. Sie ist zwar richtig, aber sie ist nicht die Wahrheit.
ARD-Tagesthemen (February 22, 1994)

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Das ist eine klassische journalistische Behauptung. Sie ist zwar richtig, aber sie ist nicht die Wahrheit.

in den ARD-Tagesthemen, 22. Februar 1994

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