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Hörspiel des Monats Dezember 2025
NIEWIEDERGUT oder Darf jetzt wirklich ein Jude der König von Bayern sein
von Diana von Suffrin
Regie: Christiane Huber
Komposition: Enik (Dominik Schäfer)
Redaktion & Dramaturgie: Katja Huber
Produktion: BR 2025
Länge: 64:06
Ursendung: Bayern2, 23.09.2025Die Begründung der Jury
Das Ende des zweiten Weltkriegs in Deutschland. Die Befreiung. Kein Terror, keine Diktatur, keine Vernichtung, kein massenhaftes systematisches Morden mehr. Eine Zäsur. So wird es oft dargestellt. So stellen wir es uns mitunter vor. Aber nach den Mühen der Gebirge, kommen die Mühen der Ebenen, sagte Brecht 1949. Die Nachkriegszeit. Die Zeit nach dem Krieg. Frieden im Außen, aber innen? Noch Krieg? Wann zieht Frieden in die Köpfe ein? Wie lange dauert es, bis sich Einstellungen ändern? Bis sich Einsichten einstellen? Manche Haltung hat sich wohl nie geändert …
Diesem merkwürdigen Zwischenzustand, dieser Zeit zwischen Noch und Schon, zwischen Krieg und Frieden, widmet sich das Hörspiel „Niewiedergut“.Die Autorin Dana von Suffrin porträtiert darin einen Mann und mit ihm eine Zeit, springt elegant von einer Erzählebene in die nächste und erlaubt uns, die Zwischenräume selbst zu fantasieren. Da ist Philipp Auerbach, eine barocke, widersprüchliche Persönlichkeit. Jüdischer Überlebender. Er leitet das Bayrische Landesentschädigungsamt auf eine sehr eigene, sehr unbürokratische Art, die ihm zum Verhängnis werden wird. Als Jude hat man Opfer zu sein. Als Opfer hat man dankbar, schwach und untadelig zu sein. So in etwa. Und all dies ist Auerbach nicht. Er ist sinnlich, chaotisch, laut und etwas eitel. Darf der das? Offenbar nicht. Er wird Opfer einer Kampagne, angeklagt von einem ehemaligen NS-
Justizbeamten wegen Veruntreuung und nimmt sich in der Haft das Leben. Kurz darauf wird er rehabilitiert.Das Hörspiel erkundet ein bisher noch wenig erforschtes Gebiet, das Zusammenleben von Opfern und Tätern in der deutschen Nachkriegszeit. Die Stimmung der Zeit und insbesondere der tägliche Ansturm auf das Landesentschädigungsamt, die Lebensgeschichten hinter jedem Fall werden nachvollziehbar. Die Figur Auerbachs wird zum sinnlichen Erlebnis, ein schweres Thema auf überraschend unterhaltsame Art und Weise erzählt. Was besonders schwierig ist und uns deshalb besonders gut gefällt.
Niewiedergut 01 – Sufrin, Dana von
Niewiedergut 02 – Suffrin, Dana von
Das Hörspiel des Monats wird am Samstag, den 03.01.2025 um 20.05 Uhr im Deutschlandfunk (DLF) wiederholt.
Lobende Erwähnungen
Zwei lobende Erwähnungen will die Jury für diesen besonders starken Monat aussprechen:
Das Hörspiel-Oratorium „Imiona nurtu. Die Namen der Strömung“ ist ein Projekt, das seinesgleichen sucht. Eine eigene Form. Menschen aus ganz Europa sprechen die Namen und Geburtsdaten von in Auschwitz Ermordeten. Verwoben mit Lagergedichten des KZ Überlebenden Tadeusz Borowski, im Hintergrund der Wind der Häftlingsbaracken. Daraus entsteht ein Memento mori, das die Hörenden in eine fast meditative Stimmung gleiten lässt. Jeder Name ein Menschenleben. Manchmal blitzt eine Assoziation auf zu Geburtsjahr und -ort. Was für ein Werk. Wir wollen es auf diesem Wege würdigen.„Wo der Name wohnt“ ist eine gelungene Adaption des gleichnamigen Romans von Ricarda Messner, eine behutsame Reise durch die Familiengeschichte der Autorin. Die Eltern und ganz wichtig die Großeltern, die räumliche und emotionale Nähe zu diesen, der Familienalltag, der durch den Tod der Großmutter eine neue Bedeutung erhält. Die Erzählerin erinnert, assoziiert und lässt über kunstvoll gesetzte Fragmente die Biografie einer Familie entstehen. Sie wiederholt, fügt hinzu, zweifelt, recherchiert. Alltag spielt eine wichtige Rolle. Der Einkauf, das Essen, die fremde Sprache, die Räume der Wohnung, die im Zentrum der Erzählung steht. Es wird eine Reise, die von einem Berliner Mietshaus zu einem Ghetto in Riga führt. Parallel dazu eine Reise durch die deutsche Bürokratie, die der Erzählerin das Annehmen des alten Familiennamens verweigert.
Die Nominierungen
2025-01-02, Frauen und Fiktion: Hallo, ich bin Geld, DLF Kultur
2025-01-08, David Lindemann: Echokammer, DLF Kultur
2025-01-13, Ulrike Haage: Nichts ist, sagt der Weise, RBB
2025-01-18, Merzouga: Wildly tender is thy music – Lieder aus dem Moor, DLF
2025-01-24, Helmut Peschina: Treibholz, ORF2025-02-01, Heiner Goebbels: Orakelmaschine, SWR
2025-02-17, Michael Stauffer: Ihr habt echt keine Ahnung, in der Schweiz gab es nie Sowjetunion, SRF2025-03-03, AnniKa von Trier: Spurensuche Hannah Höch, rbb
2025-03-03, David Paquet: Sternschnupfen, SR
2025-03-06, Anonym: 1001 Nacht nach der Neuübersetzung von Claudia Ott, DLF
2025-03-12, Andi Unger: Es gibt kein richtiges Leben, ihr Flaschen!, BR
2025-03-19, C. F. Ramuz: Sturz in die Sonne, SRF
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 1 von 10 – Erwerb von Urlaubskompetenz, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 2 von 10 – Pre-Holiday-Holiday, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 3 von 10 – Spaß! Spaß! Spaß!, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-31, Sathyan Ramesh: Lélé, hr2025-04-01, Akin Emanuel Sipal: Mutter Vater Land, BR
2025-04-03, Basil Zecchinel / Clara Schiltenwolf: Requiem for a lobster, DLF
2025-04-03, Olga Ravn: Die Angestellten, DLF Kultur
2025-04-03, Schorsch Kamerun: Bevor wir kippen, DLF Kultur
2025-04-06, Maike Wetzel: Schwebende Brücken, SWR
2025-04-10, Dominika Jerkić & Marc Matter: Oroboro, SWR
2025-04-15, Ernst Jünger: Auf den Marmorklippen, SWR
2025-04-15, Walter Filz / Edgar Allan Poe: Der Untergang des Hauses, SWR
2025-04-16, Peter Bichsel: Nichts Besonderes, SRF
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 1 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 2 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 3 von 3, MDR2025-05-06, Noam Brusilovsky / Ofer Waldman: Wer weiß wer kennt, rbb
2025-05-13, Dominik Bernet: Brot weint, SRF
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 3 von 6 – Der Meisterdieb, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 4 von 6 – Zu viel Zaster, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 5 von 6 – Totale Krise, hr
2025-05-23, Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Der Untergang der Titanic, ORF2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 1 – Emily Pop, SWR
2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 2 – I.K, SWR
2025-06-04, Leonie Ziem: Kind aus Seide, SWR
2025-06-05, Armin Smailovic: Branko Simic: Srebrenica, DLF Kultur
2025-06-05, Michel Decar: Die Kobra von Kreuzberg, DLF Kultur
2025-06-13, Sabine Ludwig: Und dann saß ich da mit meinen 7 Unterhosen in der Hand, rbb
2025-06-17, Magda Woitzuck: Mallorca, Mord und Margaritas, hr2025-07-03, Albrecht Kunze: Das Ding aus keiner anderen Welt als dieser, SWR
2025-07-03, Sven Recker: Der Afrik, SWR
2025-07-04, Stefan M. Bürkner: Gestern war die Welt noch schlecht, DLF Kultur
2025-07-22 Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Nachtflug, ORF
2025-07-04, Gregor Schmalzried: Mia Insomnia 3, BR
2025-07-22, Philipp Blom: Vier Stürme, ein Sturm, ORF
2025-07-07, Raoul Schrott: Sternenhimmel der Menschheit, BR
2025-07-27, Friedrich Ani: Die Wut der Wellen, NDR2025-08-18, Stefanie Sargnagel: Iowa – Ein Ausflug nach Amerika, ORF / DLF Kultur
2025-08-28, Felix Kubin: FLOW – Beyond Baroque and Words, BR2025-09-04, Caroline Wahl: Windstärke 17, HR
2025-09-04,Dana von Suffrin: NIEWIEDERGUT, BR
2025-09-04, Lene Albrecht: Kamina, DLF Kultur
2025-09-04, Magda Woitzuck: Zwei Schwestern, HR
2025-09-04, Marlen Hobrack: Schrödingers Grrrl, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Fabian Saul: Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Marcus Steinweg: Metaphysik der Leere, DLF
2025-09-11, Lars Werner: Das Ende des Westens, rbb
2025-09-15, Victor Sattler: Stolpertexte Folge 7 Hoffentlich ist es dann noch nicht zu spät, MDR
2025-09-25, Dirk Schmidt: Crrowl, RB2025-10-04, Yannic Han Biao Federer: Für immer seh ich dich wieder, NDR
2025-10-16, Bergsveinn Birgisson: Antwort auf den Brief von Helga, ORF-SF
2025-10-20, Gesche Piening: Göttlich bleiben, BR
2025-10-22, Jovana Reisinger: Das große Leid, das kleine Leben, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Leonhard F. Seidl: Fronten, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Natalie Baudy: Fairycoin, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Herta Müller: Die Welt schaukelt und du willst glücklich sein, DLF
2025-10-30, Kai Grehn: Imiona nurtu – Die Namen der Strömung, SWR
2025-10-30, Ricarda Messner: Wo der Name wohnt, SWR2025-11-02, Ava Tabita Yul: Mama Mega, RBB
2025-11-06, Amal El Ommali / Andrea Geißler: Lamyas Buch der Scharlatane, HR
2025-11-12, Kristine Bilkau: Halbinsel, NDR
2025-11-24, Emma Braslavsky: Die Nothing-Box, BR
2025-11-24, Manuela Tomic: Die Sonne täuscht über das Unglück hinweg, ORF
2025-11-24, Mudar Alhaggi: Damaskus danach, NDR
2025-11-24, Victor Hugo: Die Arbeiter des Meeres_Teil 1 bis 3, SWR<
2025-11-26, Gert Prokop: Timothy Truckle ermittelt Teil 9 Der Laurin oder Umzug der Engel, MDR#DianaVonSuffrin #HörspielDesMonats #NIEWIEDERGUT #oderDarfJetztWirklichEinJudeDerKönigVonBayernSein
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Hörspiel des Monats Dezember 2025
NIEWIEDERGUT oder Darf jetzt wirklich ein Jude der König von Bayern sein
von Diana von Suffrin
Regie: Christiane Huber
Komposition: Enik (Dominik Schäfer)
Redaktion & Dramaturgie: Katja Huber
Produktion: BR 2025
Länge: 64:06
Ursendung: Bayern2, 23.09.2025Die Begründung der Jury
Das Ende des zweiten Weltkriegs in Deutschland. Die Befreiung. Kein Terror, keine Diktatur, keine Vernichtung, kein massenhaftes systematisches Morden mehr. Eine Zäsur. So wird es oft dargestellt. So stellen wir es uns mitunter vor. Aber nach den Mühen der Gebirge, kommen die Mühen der Ebenen, sagte Brecht 1949. Die Nachkriegszeit. Die Zeit nach dem Krieg. Frieden im Außen, aber innen? Noch Krieg? Wann zieht Frieden in die Köpfe ein? Wie lange dauert es, bis sich Einstellungen ändern? Bis sich Einsichten einstellen? Manche Haltung hat sich wohl nie geändert …
Diesem merkwürdigen Zwischenzustand, dieser Zeit zwischen Noch und Schon, zwischen Krieg und Frieden, widmet sich das Hörspiel „Niewiedergut“.Die Autorin Dana von Suffrin porträtiert darin einen Mann und mit ihm eine Zeit, springt elegant von einer Erzählebene in die nächste und erlaubt uns, die Zwischenräume selbst zu fantasieren. Da ist Philipp Auerbach, eine barocke, widersprüchliche Persönlichkeit. Jüdischer Überlebender. Er leitet das Bayrische Landesentschädigungsamt auf eine sehr eigene, sehr unbürokratische Art, die ihm zum Verhängnis werden wird. Als Jude hat man Opfer zu sein. Als Opfer hat man dankbar, schwach und untadelig zu sein. So in etwa. Und all dies ist Auerbach nicht. Er ist sinnlich, chaotisch, laut und etwas eitel. Darf der das? Offenbar nicht. Er wird Opfer einer Kampagne, angeklagt von einem ehemaligen NS-
Justizbeamten wegen Veruntreuung und nimmt sich in der Haft das Leben. Kurz darauf wird er rehabilitiert.Das Hörspiel erkundet ein bisher noch wenig erforschtes Gebiet, das Zusammenleben von Opfern und Tätern in der deutschen Nachkriegszeit. Die Stimmung der Zeit und insbesondere der tägliche Ansturm auf das Landesentschädigungsamt, die Lebensgeschichten hinter jedem Fall werden nachvollziehbar. Die Figur Auerbachs wird zum sinnlichen Erlebnis, ein schweres Thema auf überraschend unterhaltsame Art und Weise erzählt. Was besonders schwierig ist und uns deshalb besonders gut gefällt.
Niewiedergut 01 – Sufrin, Dana von
Niewiedergut 02 – Suffrin, Dana von
Das Hörspiel des Monats wird am Samstag, den 03.01.2025 um 20.05 Uhr im Deutschlandfunk (DLF) wiederholt.
Lobende Erwähnungen
Zwei lobende Erwähnungen will die Jury für diesen besonders starken Monat aussprechen:
Das Hörspiel-Oratorium „Imiona nurtu. Die Namen der Strömung“ ist ein Projekt, das seinesgleichen sucht. Eine eigene Form. Menschen aus ganz Europa sprechen die Namen und Geburtsdaten von in Auschwitz Ermordeten. Verwoben mit Lagergedichten des KZ Überlebenden Tadeusz Borowski, im Hintergrund der Wind der Häftlingsbaracken. Daraus entsteht ein Memento mori, das die Hörenden in eine fast meditative Stimmung gleiten lässt. Jeder Name ein Menschenleben. Manchmal blitzt eine Assoziation auf zu Geburtsjahr und -ort. Was für ein Werk. Wir wollen es auf diesem Wege würdigen.„Wo der Name wohnt“ ist eine gelungene Adaption des gleichnamigen Romans von Ricarda Messner, eine behutsame Reise durch die Familiengeschichte der Autorin. Die Eltern und ganz wichtig die Großeltern, die räumliche und emotionale Nähe zu diesen, der Familienalltag, der durch den Tod der Großmutter eine neue Bedeutung erhält. Die Erzählerin erinnert, assoziiert und lässt über kunstvoll gesetzte Fragmente die Biografie einer Familie entstehen. Sie wiederholt, fügt hinzu, zweifelt, recherchiert. Alltag spielt eine wichtige Rolle. Der Einkauf, das Essen, die fremde Sprache, die Räume der Wohnung, die im Zentrum der Erzählung steht. Es wird eine Reise, die von einem Berliner Mietshaus zu einem Ghetto in Riga führt. Parallel dazu eine Reise durch die deutsche Bürokratie, die der Erzählerin das Annehmen des alten Familiennamens verweigert.
Die Nominierungen
2025-01-02, Frauen und Fiktion: Hallo, ich bin Geld, DLF Kultur
2025-01-08, David Lindemann: Echokammer, DLF Kultur
2025-01-13, Ulrike Haage: Nichts ist, sagt der Weise, RBB
2025-01-18, Merzouga: Wildly tender is thy music – Lieder aus dem Moor, DLF
2025-01-24, Helmut Peschina: Treibholz, ORF2025-02-01, Heiner Goebbels: Orakelmaschine, SWR
2025-02-17, Michael Stauffer: Ihr habt echt keine Ahnung, in der Schweiz gab es nie Sowjetunion, SRF2025-03-03, AnniKa von Trier: Spurensuche Hannah Höch, rbb
2025-03-03, David Paquet: Sternschnupfen, SR
2025-03-06, Anonym: 1001 Nacht nach der Neuübersetzung von Claudia Ott, DLF
2025-03-12, Andi Unger: Es gibt kein richtiges Leben, ihr Flaschen!, BR
2025-03-19, C. F. Ramuz: Sturz in die Sonne, SRF
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 1 von 10 – Erwerb von Urlaubskompetenz, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 2 von 10 – Pre-Holiday-Holiday, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 3 von 10 – Spaß! Spaß! Spaß!, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-31, Sathyan Ramesh: Lélé, hr2025-04-01, Akin Emanuel Sipal: Mutter Vater Land, BR
2025-04-03, Basil Zecchinel / Clara Schiltenwolf: Requiem for a lobster, DLF
2025-04-03, Olga Ravn: Die Angestellten, DLF Kultur
2025-04-03, Schorsch Kamerun: Bevor wir kippen, DLF Kultur
2025-04-06, Maike Wetzel: Schwebende Brücken, SWR
2025-04-10, Dominika Jerkić & Marc Matter: Oroboro, SWR
2025-04-15, Ernst Jünger: Auf den Marmorklippen, SWR
2025-04-15, Walter Filz / Edgar Allan Poe: Der Untergang des Hauses, SWR
2025-04-16, Peter Bichsel: Nichts Besonderes, SRF
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 1 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 2 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 3 von 3, MDR2025-05-06, Noam Brusilovsky / Ofer Waldman: Wer weiß wer kennt, rbb
2025-05-13, Dominik Bernet: Brot weint, SRF
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 3 von 6 – Der Meisterdieb, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 4 von 6 – Zu viel Zaster, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 5 von 6 – Totale Krise, hr
2025-05-23, Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Der Untergang der Titanic, ORF2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 1 – Emily Pop, SWR
2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 2 – I.K, SWR
2025-06-04, Leonie Ziem: Kind aus Seide, SWR
2025-06-05, Armin Smailovic: Branko Simic: Srebrenica, DLF Kultur
2025-06-05, Michel Decar: Die Kobra von Kreuzberg, DLF Kultur
2025-06-13, Sabine Ludwig: Und dann saß ich da mit meinen 7 Unterhosen in der Hand, rbb
2025-06-17, Magda Woitzuck: Mallorca, Mord und Margaritas, hr2025-07-03, Albrecht Kunze: Das Ding aus keiner anderen Welt als dieser, SWR
2025-07-03, Sven Recker: Der Afrik, SWR
2025-07-04, Stefan M. Bürkner: Gestern war die Welt noch schlecht, DLF Kultur
2025-07-22 Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Nachtflug, ORF
2025-07-04, Gregor Schmalzried: Mia Insomnia 3, BR
2025-07-22, Philipp Blom: Vier Stürme, ein Sturm, ORF
2025-07-07, Raoul Schrott: Sternenhimmel der Menschheit, BR
2025-07-27, Friedrich Ani: Die Wut der Wellen, NDR2025-08-18, Stefanie Sargnagel: Iowa – Ein Ausflug nach Amerika, ORF / DLF Kultur
2025-08-28, Felix Kubin: FLOW – Beyond Baroque and Words, BR2025-09-04, Caroline Wahl: Windstärke 17, HR
2025-09-04,Dana von Suffrin: NIEWIEDERGUT, BR
2025-09-04, Lene Albrecht: Kamina, DLF Kultur
2025-09-04, Magda Woitzuck: Zwei Schwestern, HR
2025-09-04, Marlen Hobrack: Schrödingers Grrrl, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Fabian Saul: Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Marcus Steinweg: Metaphysik der Leere, DLF
2025-09-11, Lars Werner: Das Ende des Westens, rbb
2025-09-15, Victor Sattler: Stolpertexte Folge 7 Hoffentlich ist es dann noch nicht zu spät, MDR
2025-09-25, Dirk Schmidt: Crrowl, RB2025-10-04, Yannic Han Biao Federer: Für immer seh ich dich wieder, NDR
2025-10-16, Bergsveinn Birgisson: Antwort auf den Brief von Helga, ORF-SF
2025-10-20, Gesche Piening: Göttlich bleiben, BR
2025-10-22, Jovana Reisinger: Das große Leid, das kleine Leben, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Leonhard F. Seidl: Fronten, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Natalie Baudy: Fairycoin, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Herta Müller: Die Welt schaukelt und du willst glücklich sein, DLF
2025-10-30, Kai Grehn: Imiona nurtu – Die Namen der Strömung, SWR
2025-10-30, Ricarda Messner: Wo der Name wohnt, SWR2025-11-02, Ava Tabita Yul: Mama Mega, RBB
#DianaVonSuffrin #HörspielDesMonats #NIEWIEDERGUT #oderDarfJetztWirklichEinJudeDerKönigVonBayernSein
2025-11-06, Amal El Ommali / Andrea Geißler: Lamyas Buch der Scharlatane, HR
2025-11-12, Kristine Bilkau: Halbinsel, NDR
2025-11-24, Emma Braslavsky: Die Nothing-Box, BR
2025-11-24, Manuela Tomic: Die Sonne täuscht über das Unglück hinweg, ORF
2025-11-24, Mudar Alhaggi: Damaskus danach, NDR
2025-11-24, Victor Hugo: Die Arbeiter des Meeres_Teil 1 bis 3, SWR<
2025-11-26, Gert Prokop: Timothy Truckle ermittelt Teil 9 Der Laurin oder Umzug der Engel, MDR -
Mostly Monday Reads: I come to Bury CBS, Not to Praise It
“How can we tire from all this winning?” John Buss, @repeat1968
Good Day, Sky Dancers!
60 Minutes premiered on September 24th, 1968, with Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace. I was barely a teenager when it premiered, but even then, I was growing into fully all the fringed suede and tattered blue jeans I could find with my guitar set filled with the likes of Dylan and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. However, I realized that I was watching something I’d watched for a very long time. Next year, I would buy that Woodstock Guitar strap and cut my first real studio audition. My best friend and I recorded a cover of “One Tin Soldier,” which was requested by Billy Jack for his second movie. Music and the News were the only things that got me through the banality of my life at that point. (Omaha, UGH!)
I spent my entire childhood watching and reading the news with my Dad, through the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and all those crazy times in the 1960s. It was a pivotal moment that led me to become the social justice activist I am today. Reasoner described 60 Minutes as a type of News Magazine, and we had just about all of them that went from our house to the customer service area of my Dad’s small Ford Dealership in a small town in Iowa. It was difficult to get the Washington Post during Watergate, but 60 Minutes was there in living color.
I haven’t really watched in a long time because so much has gone missing. Ever since I got my first newspaper subscription to the Manchester Guardian in High School, I have to say it was part of my education, right through to Graduate School. Now, during the time when I have ever been the least sanguine about our country’s future, I can only say RIP 60 Minutes. These are indeed bleak times. The U.S. Media has a grand old tradition dating back to Benjamin Franklin. It has lost its way to the same evil it sought to expose during World Wars and other events. It has a history of struggle between the powerful entities that seek to control the narrative and the writers who research and reveal the truth. In the age of Techbros and MAGA, Crypto and Virtual Cash, we see a barren landscape destroyed by greed.
I’ll start with the offending program, then offer some perspectives from a number of folks who used to have a place on TV news and are now relegated to the New Deal Blogosphere. I should mention that during that same period of becoming who I am, I wrote for both an underground Newspaper (The Aardvark) and two school newspapers. This blog is an extension of those of us who became very interested again in discussing the news during Dubya’s adventures in the Middle East and the hope we had of simply seeing a woman become president.
This is from CBS News, the former home of everyone’s Uncle Walter, and my personal favorite, Edward Bradley, who always showed up for the New Orleans Jazz Fest, sat with me in monitor world to hear his beloved jazz after I’d put all the microphones in their proper places and dealt with the talent. He always remembered to ask about my daughters by name. It hurts that the overseers used a woman to do this. “Read the full transcript of Norah O’Donnell’s interview with President Trump here.”
Editor’s note: On October 31, 2025, correspondent Norah O’Donnell spoke with President Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, FL, and this is a transcript of that conversation. They started by discussing the president’s recent meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, first of all, we get along great, and we always really have. We had the COVID moment, which was not– attractive as far as I was concerned. I wasn’t so happy. But outside of that, we have always had a great relationship. He’s a powerful man. He’s a strong man, a very powerful leader.
And– we’ve always– had the best of relationships, probably the best of– I could– I think I could speak for him, just about as good as it gets from his standpoint and from my standpoint. And having that is important because of the power of the two countries.
NORAH O’DONNELL: What did you get out of this deal that you wanted?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I got sort of everything that we wanted. We got– no rare earth threat. That’s gone, completely gone. We have tremendous amounts of– dollars pouring in– ’cause we have– very big tariffs, almost 50%. We never had anything in terms of tariffs, although I put tariffs on China, but Biden let it lapsed by the– by the fact that he gave exemptions on almost everything, which was just ridiculous.
By this time, the fact-checking should’ve begun, and some good old-fashioned interrupting with follow-up questions. It went on with none. Instead, we got mealy-mouthed clarifications.
But– we have– billions and billions of dollars coming in, and we have a very good relationship. I mean, we have– a great relationship with a powerful country. And I’ve always felt if we can make deals that are good, it’s better to get along with China than not, if you can’t make the right kind of a deal than not, because, you know, China, along with many other countries (they’re not alone in this), they’ve ripped us off from day one.
They’ve ripped us so much. They’ve taken trillions of dollars out of our country. And now they’re– it’s the opposite. I mean, we’re doing very well with China, and hopefully they’re gonna do very well with us. But I do think it’s important that China and the U.S. get along, and we get along very well at the top.
NORAH O’DONNELL: This trade war, though, was hurting Americans. I mean, our soybean farmers. China had stopped buying the soybeans.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah.
NORAH O’DONNELL: As you mentioned, they were– China was withholding these rare earth materials that you need for everything from smartphones to– to build submarines.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Sure.
NORAH O’DONNELL: What– what was the crucial thing? I mean, how tough of a negotiatior–
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, when you say hurting–
NORAH O’DONNELL: –is President Xi–
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: –it was a temporary hurt. It was a hurt because– I was takin’ in a lot of money from China. We’re doing very well against China. And all of a sudden they said, “You know, we have to fight back.” And so they used their powers. The power they have is rare earth because of the fact that they’ve been accumulating it and– and really taking care of it for a period of 25, 30 years.
Other countries haven’t. Now we are. I mean, we have tremendous rare earth, and it’s going to be– you know, it’s going to be– it’ll be a strength, but it won’t really be a strength if everybody has it. Everyone’s gonna have it pretty soon.
`I would call this full-throated propaganda allowed air time for way too long. Here’s another example before I start telling Norah there’s something brown growing on her nose. It’s further on down the page. I’m just glad I didn’t watch it.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think in two years, we’ll start opening up plants and we’ll have a very substantial portion of the chip market. Right now we have almost none. We should have had a hundred percent. If we had par– if we had presidents that knew anything about business or knew what they were doing, because, frankly, they didn’t.
We lost 50% of our automobile business. It’s all coming back. We lost a hundred percent of the chip– you know, it used to be all Intel and other companies. And what happened is other countries came in, and they stole our chip business, and we didn’t charge tariffs.
If we would have charged let’s say a 100% tariff, none of those companies would have left. But they all left. Now they’re all coming back, Norah, because the only way they avoid the tariffs is to build in our country. If they build in our country, make their plant and make their product in our country, then it’s a very simple thing. They– they don’t have any tariff to pay.
NORAH O’DONNELL: Uh-huh.
Well, she’s certainly not an heir to the Murrow Boys. Like so many, Medhi Hassan left a big desk on a 4-letter network because someone saw him as being a bit too much of a journalist and one of color. He has his own spot out here on his own website.
It’s similar to the choice of my first Newspaper: The Manchester Guardian, which I still read daily as The Guardian. His site, named Zeteo, can be found on Substack on the web, alongside other banished reporters and what used to be known as “Public Intellectuals” rather than influencers. Today’s offering is ” Factchecking Trump on ’60 Minutes’.” He’s taken the place of the major legacy newspapers. The lede is divine. ’60 Minutes’ of Shame and Submission.’
Having watched the whole ‘60 Minutes’ interview and read the entire transcript, too, I genuinely can’t decide what was worse: Trump’s endlessly dishonest answers or O’Donnell’s non-stop softball questions.
I kid you not, here is a short selection of some of the questions this award-winning, highly-paid, veteran news anchor chose to ask the most powerful man on Earth in her limited time with him:
- “Have some of these [ICE] raids gone too far?”
- “Who’s tougher to deal with, Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping?”
- “Why won’t Putin end this war?
- “Do you worry about an AI bubble?”
- “What do you hope to accomplish in the next three years?”
Ooooohh! Tough stuff! The new owner of CBS, David Ellison, and the new head of CBS News, Bari Weiss, must both be so proud. This is the kind of ‘balanced’ coverage I’m sure they were waiting for. Then again, to be fair to them, O’Donnell has a long history of softball interviewing that predates the recent takeover of her network by a MAGA billionaire. Remember her love-in with Saudi crown prince MBS in 2018?
But this isn’t just about O’Donnell or CBS. The ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Trump showcased everything that is wrong with US political interviews in general. The deferential tone. The lack of preparation. The failure to ask follow-up questions or dig deep into an interviewee’s answers. The inability (unwillingness?) to fact-check in real time.
At one point, Trump asked O’Donnell whether she knew “how many presidents have used the Insurrection Act,” to which the CBS anchor simply responded: “Tell me.” Trump then proceeded to lie about the proportion (“Almost 50% of ‘em,” he said, when the real proportion is 38%) and the absolute number (“some of the presidents, recent ones, have used it 28 times,” he said, when the most was actually only six times, and back in the 1870s).
But O’Donnell said nothing. She just moved on.
There were so many falsehoods and half-truths, and so little pushback, that after a while, I gave up. I stopped counting. Here’s what I did manage to catch, in terms of brazen lies, all of which were left unrebutted, uncorrected, unchallenged, by O’Donnell:
- “We had nine wars on our planet. I solved eight of ‘em.” I have debunked this nonsensical claim before.
- “We have no inflation.” Inflation is at 3%.
- “It’s at 2%. It’s– it’s the perfect inflation.” Inflation is at 3%.
- “Right now [grocery prices are] going down.” Grocery prices are up 1.4% since Trump came to office.
- “A year ago, we were a dead country.” Not only did the US have the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in both 2023 and 2024, but the Economist magazine called it “the envy of the world.”
- “11,888 murderers were let into our country.” Not only is this number inaccurate, but many of the non-citizens convicted of homicide either here or abroad came in during Trump’s first term.
- “Washington, DC, was… almost like a crime capital of the world.” In 2023, per PolitiFact, “at least 49 other cities in the world had higher homicide rates.
- “[Biden] hardly went anywhere. Guy couldn’t leave his bedroom.” Not only did Joe Biden visit roughly as many countries in his term of office as Trump did in his first term, but Biden was the first US president to visit an active warzone – Ukraine – not under the control of US forces.
- “I made Middle East peace. For 3,000 years, they couldn’t do it.” There is no peace in Palestine, no peace deal in place, and it isn’t a 3,000-year-old conflict.
- “Communist, not socialist. Communist. He’s far worse than a socialist.” Zohran Mamdani is not a communist.
- “I can’t give them $1.5 trillion so that they can give welfare to people that came into our country illegally.” The Trump/GOP claim that Democrats want to give free healthcare to undocumented immigrants has been repeatedly debunked.
- “They emptied their mental institutions and their insane asylums– into the United States of America.” Asylum seekers don’t come from “insane asylums.” Obviously.
- “One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged.” It wasn’t. The courts agreed.
- “And a lotta people say when it’s rigged you’re allowed to do it again.” A lot of people don’t say this. The US Constitution doesn’t, for sure.
Please read it. The next section lists the questions O’Donnell should have asked as a follow-up. I will say that I believe Mehdi’s follow-up questions in every interview I’ve watched him do are stellar. He points out exaggerations and falsehoods, zeroes in on exactly what the issue with the response is, and just delivers it deliciously. I’m a Fan grrrl. And me, the teenage girl who had to sneak her friend Cathie into the Journalism workspace so she could lust after Kurt Anderson to keep her from going on about him all lunchtime long.
CNN had a more traditional take on said Interview by Daniel Dale. “Fact check: 18 false claims Trump made on ‘60 Minutes’.”
Trump told his usual lie that the free and fair 2020 election was stolen from him. He lied again that grocery prices “are down” even after CBS’ Norah O’Donnell informed him they are up. He declared once more that there is now “no inflation,” though there certainly is, and then that inflation is 2% or “even less than 2%,” though the most recent available Consumer Price Index figure is now up to 3%.
The president also deployed multiple other fictional numbers during his exchanges with O’Donnell, which were recorded Friday and released by CBS on Sunday.
- He falsely claimed “$17 trillion” is being invested in the US “right now,” though the $17 trillion figure is nearly double the White House’s own wildly inflated figure.
- He falsely claimed each alleged drug boat the US has attacked in recent weeks “kills 25,000 Americans,” though experts note this figure plainly does not make sense.
- He falsely claimed some recent former presidents invoked the Insurrection Act “28 times,” though no individual president has invoked it on more than six occasions with this record set by President Ulysses S. Grant in the 1800s.
- He falsely claimed he has ended “eight wars,” though his list includes two situations that were not wars at all and at least one war that continues.
- He falsely claimed CBS aired an edited interview with Trump’s 2024 opponent Kamala Harris “two days” before the election, though it was actually more than four full weeks before Election Day.
- He falsely claimed former President Joe Biden gave $350 billion in aid to Ukraine (the real number is well under half that) and allowed in “25 million” migrants (the real number here is well under half that, too).
And Trump made a variety of additional false claims on several subjects, including the government shutdown, the artificial intelligence boom, tariffs, his first impeachment and his former legal battle with “60 Minutes” itself.
I really wonder how many people besides you and me actually read this stuff and bring it up in normal conversation. I know that the MAGATs will never read or hear it. I saved the best for last. This is from my precious Guardian reporting about the heavy-handed editing given to this latest 60 Minutes interview with Trump. Quelle Suprise, y’all! “CBS News heavily edits Trump 60 Minutes interview, cutting boast network ‘paid me a lotta money’. Trump said Paramount’s sale to David and Larry Ellison was ‘greatest thing that’s happened in a long time’ for free press.” This is reported by Jeremy Barr.
The CBS News program 60 Minutes heavily edited down an interview with Donald Trump that aired on Sunday night, his first sit-down with the show in five years.
Trump sat down with correspondent Norah O’Donnell for 90 minutes, but only about 28 minutes were broadcast. A full transcript of the interview was later published, along with a 73-minute-long extended version online.
The edits are notable because, exactly one year before Trump was interviewed by O’Donnell at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday he had sued CBS over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, which he alleged had been deceptively edited to help her chances in the presidential election.
While many legal experts widely dismissed the lawsuit as “meritless” and unlikely to hold up under the first amendment, CBS settled with Trump for $16m in July. As part of the settlement, the network had agreed that it would release transcripts of future interviews of presidential candidates.
At the beginning of Sunday’s show, O’Donnell reminded viewers that Paramount settled Trump’s lawsuit, but noted that “the settlement did not include an apology or admission of wrongdoing”.
During the interview, in a clip that did not air on the broadcast, Trump needled CBS over the settlement and repeated his claims against the network.
“Actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you, and I’m sure you’re not,” Trump said. “But 60 Minutes was forced to pay me a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can’t have fake news. You’ve gotta have legit news. And I think that it’s happening.”
During another un-aired portion of the interview, Trump praised the sale of CBS to the Ellison family and said the network’s new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, was a “great new leader”.
The US president said he didn’t know Weiss, but told O’Donnell: “I hear she’s a great person.
Well, this is getting long for a meager WordPress blog post.
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Mostly Monday Reads: I come to Bury CBS, Not to Praise It
“How can we tire from all this winning?” John Buss, @repeat1968
Good Day, Sky Dancers!
60 Minutes premiered on September 24th, 1968, with Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace. I was barely a teenager when it premiered, but even then, I was growing into fully all the fringed suede and tattered blue jeans I could find with my guitar set filled with the likes of Dylan and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. However, I realized that I was watching something I’d watched for a very long time. Next year, I would buy that Woodstock Guitar strap and cut my first real studio audition. My best friend and I recorded a cover of “One Tin Soldier,” which was requested by Billy Jack for his second movie. Music and the News were the only things that got me through the banality of my life at that point. (Omaha, UGH!)
I spent my entire childhood watching and reading the news with my Dad, through the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and all those crazy times in the 1960s. It was a pivotal moment that led me to become the social justice activist I am today. Reasoner described 60 Minutes as a type of News Magazine, and we had just about all of them that went from our house to the customer service area of my Dad’s small Ford Dealership in a small town in Iowa. It was difficult to get the Washington Post during Watergate, but 60 Minutes was there in living color.
I haven’t really watched in a long time because so much has gone missing. Ever since I got my first newspaper subscription to the Manchester Guardian in High School, I have to say it was part of my education, right through to Graduate School. Now, during the time when I have ever been the least sanguine about our country’s future, I can only say RIP 60 Minutes. These are indeed bleak times. The U.S. Media has a grand old tradition dating back to Benjamin Franklin. It has lost its way to the same evil it sought to expose during World Wars and other events. It has a history of struggle between the powerful entities that seek to control the narrative and the writers who research and reveal the truth. In the age of Techbros and MAGA, Crypto and Virtual Cash, we see a barren landscape destroyed by greed.
I’ll start with the offending program, then offer some perspectives from a number of folks who used to have a place on TV news and are now relegated to the New Deal Blogosphere. I should mention that during that same period of becoming who I am, I wrote for both an underground Newspaper (The Aardvark) and two school newspapers. This blog is an extension of those of us who became very interested again in discussing the news during Dubya’s adventures in the Middle East and the hope we had of simply seeing a woman become president.
This is from CBS News, the former home of everyone’s Uncle Walter, and my personal favorite, Edward Bradley, who always showed up for the New Orleans Jazz Fest, sat with me in monitor world to hear his beloved jazz after I’d put all the microphones in their proper places and dealt with the talent. He always remembered to ask about my daughters by name. It hurts that the overseers used a woman to do this. “Read the full transcript of Norah O’Donnell’s interview with President Trump here.”
Editor’s note: On October 31, 2025, correspondent Norah O’Donnell spoke with President Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, FL, and this is a transcript of that conversation. They started by discussing the president’s recent meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, first of all, we get along great, and we always really have. We had the COVID moment, which was not– attractive as far as I was concerned. I wasn’t so happy. But outside of that, we have always had a great relationship. He’s a powerful man. He’s a strong man, a very powerful leader.
And– we’ve always– had the best of relationships, probably the best of– I could– I think I could speak for him, just about as good as it gets from his standpoint and from my standpoint. And having that is important because of the power of the two countries.
NORAH O’DONNELL: What did you get out of this deal that you wanted?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I got sort of everything that we wanted. We got– no rare earth threat. That’s gone, completely gone. We have tremendous amounts of– dollars pouring in– ’cause we have– very big tariffs, almost 50%. We never had anything in terms of tariffs, although I put tariffs on China, but Biden let it lapsed by the– by the fact that he gave exemptions on almost everything, which was just ridiculous.
By this time, the fact-checking should’ve begun, and some good old-fashioned interrupting with follow-up questions. It went on with none. Instead, we got mealy-mouthed clarifications.
But– we have– billions and billions of dollars coming in, and we have a very good relationship. I mean, we have– a great relationship with a powerful country. And I’ve always felt if we can make deals that are good, it’s better to get along with China than not, if you can’t make the right kind of a deal than not, because, you know, China, along with many other countries (they’re not alone in this), they’ve ripped us off from day one.
They’ve ripped us so much. They’ve taken trillions of dollars out of our country. And now they’re– it’s the opposite. I mean, we’re doing very well with China, and hopefully they’re gonna do very well with us. But I do think it’s important that China and the U.S. get along, and we get along very well at the top.
NORAH O’DONNELL: This trade war, though, was hurting Americans. I mean, our soybean farmers. China had stopped buying the soybeans.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah.
NORAH O’DONNELL: As you mentioned, they were– China was withholding these rare earth materials that you need for everything from smartphones to– to build submarines.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Sure.
NORAH O’DONNELL: What– what was the crucial thing? I mean, how tough of a negotiatior–
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, when you say hurting–
NORAH O’DONNELL: –is President Xi–
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: –it was a temporary hurt. It was a hurt because– I was takin’ in a lot of money from China. We’re doing very well against China. And all of a sudden they said, “You know, we have to fight back.” And so they used their powers. The power they have is rare earth because of the fact that they’ve been accumulating it and– and really taking care of it for a period of 25, 30 years.
Other countries haven’t. Now we are. I mean, we have tremendous rare earth, and it’s going to be– you know, it’s going to be– it’ll be a strength, but it won’t really be a strength if everybody has it. Everyone’s gonna have it pretty soon.
`I would call this full-throated propaganda allowed air time for way too long. Here’s another example before I start telling Norah there’s something brown growing on her nose. It’s further on down the page. I’m just glad I didn’t watch it.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think in two years, we’ll start opening up plants and we’ll have a very substantial portion of the chip market. Right now we have almost none. We should have had a hundred percent. If we had par– if we had presidents that knew anything about business or knew what they were doing, because, frankly, they didn’t.
We lost 50% of our automobile business. It’s all coming back. We lost a hundred percent of the chip– you know, it used to be all Intel and other companies. And what happened is other countries came in, and they stole our chip business, and we didn’t charge tariffs.
If we would have charged let’s say a 100% tariff, none of those companies would have left. But they all left. Now they’re all coming back, Norah, because the only way they avoid the tariffs is to build in our country. If they build in our country, make their plant and make their product in our country, then it’s a very simple thing. They– they don’t have any tariff to pay.
NORAH O’DONNELL: Uh-huh.
Well, she’s certainly not an heir to the Murrow Boys. Like so many, Medhi Hassan left a big desk on a 4-letter network because someone saw him as being a bit too much of a journalist and one of color. He has his own spot out here on his own website.
It’s similar to the choice of my first Newspaper: The Manchester Guardian, which I still read daily as The Guardian. His site, named Zeteo, can be found on Substack on the web, alongside other banished reporters and what used to be known as “Public Intellectuals” rather than influencers. Today’s offering is ” Factchecking Trump on ’60 Minutes’.” He’s taken the place of the major legacy newspapers. The lede is divine. ’60 Minutes’ of Shame and Submission.’
Having watched the whole ‘60 Minutes’ interview and read the entire transcript, too, I genuinely can’t decide what was worse: Trump’s endlessly dishonest answers or O’Donnell’s non-stop softball questions.
I kid you not, here is a short selection of some of the questions this award-winning, highly-paid, veteran news anchor chose to ask the most powerful man on Earth in her limited time with him:
- “Have some of these [ICE] raids gone too far?”
- “Who’s tougher to deal with, Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping?”
- “Why won’t Putin end this war?
- “Do you worry about an AI bubble?”
- “What do you hope to accomplish in the next three years?”
Ooooohh! Tough stuff! The new owner of CBS, David Ellison, and the new head of CBS News, Bari Weiss, must both be so proud. This is the kind of ‘balanced’ coverage I’m sure they were waiting for. Then again, to be fair to them, O’Donnell has a long history of softball interviewing that predates the recent takeover of her network by a MAGA billionaire. Remember her love-in with Saudi crown prince MBS in 2018?
But this isn’t just about O’Donnell or CBS. The ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Trump showcased everything that is wrong with US political interviews in general. The deferential tone. The lack of preparation. The failure to ask follow-up questions or dig deep into an interviewee’s answers. The inability (unwillingness?) to fact-check in real time.
At one point, Trump asked O’Donnell whether she knew “how many presidents have used the Insurrection Act,” to which the CBS anchor simply responded: “Tell me.” Trump then proceeded to lie about the proportion (“Almost 50% of ‘em,” he said, when the real proportion is 38%) and the absolute number (“some of the presidents, recent ones, have used it 28 times,” he said, when the most was actually only six times, and back in the 1870s).
But O’Donnell said nothing. She just moved on.
There were so many falsehoods and half-truths, and so little pushback, that after a while, I gave up. I stopped counting. Here’s what I did manage to catch, in terms of brazen lies, all of which were left unrebutted, uncorrected, unchallenged, by O’Donnell:
- “We had nine wars on our planet. I solved eight of ‘em.” I have debunked this nonsensical claim before.
- “We have no inflation.” Inflation is at 3%.
- “It’s at 2%. It’s– it’s the perfect inflation.” Inflation is at 3%.
- “Right now [grocery prices are] going down.” Grocery prices are up 1.4% since Trump came to office.
- “A year ago, we were a dead country.” Not only did the US have the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in both 2023 and 2024, but the Economist magazine called it “the envy of the world.”
- “11,888 murderers were let into our country.” Not only is this number inaccurate, but many of the non-citizens convicted of homicide either here or abroad came in during Trump’s first term.
- “Washington, DC, was… almost like a crime capital of the world.” In 2023, per PolitiFact, “at least 49 other cities in the world had higher homicide rates.
- “[Biden] hardly went anywhere. Guy couldn’t leave his bedroom.” Not only did Joe Biden visit roughly as many countries in his term of office as Trump did in his first term, but Biden was the first US president to visit an active warzone – Ukraine – not under the control of US forces.
- “I made Middle East peace. For 3,000 years, they couldn’t do it.” There is no peace in Palestine, no peace deal in place, and it isn’t a 3,000-year-old conflict.
- “Communist, not socialist. Communist. He’s far worse than a socialist.” Zohran Mamdani is not a communist.
- “I can’t give them $1.5 trillion so that they can give welfare to people that came into our country illegally.” The Trump/GOP claim that Democrats want to give free healthcare to undocumented immigrants has been repeatedly debunked.
- “They emptied their mental institutions and their insane asylums– into the United States of America.” Asylum seekers don’t come from “insane asylums.” Obviously.
- “One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged.” It wasn’t. The courts agreed.
- “And a lotta people say when it’s rigged you’re allowed to do it again.” A lot of people don’t say this. The US Constitution doesn’t, for sure.
Please read it. The next section lists the questions O’Donnell should have asked as a follow-up. I will say that I believe Mehdi’s follow-up questions in every interview I’ve watched him do are stellar. He points out exaggerations and falsehoods, zeroes in on exactly what the issue with the response is, and just delivers it deliciously. I’m a Fan grrrl. And me, the teenage girl who had to sneak her friend Cathie into the Journalism workspace so she could lust after Kurt Anderson to keep her from going on about him all lunchtime long.
CNN had a more traditional take on said Interview by Daniel Dale. “Fact check: 18 false claims Trump made on ‘60 Minutes’.”
Trump told his usual lie that the free and fair 2020 election was stolen from him. He lied again that grocery prices “are down” even after CBS’ Norah O’Donnell informed him they are up. He declared once more that there is now “no inflation,” though there certainly is, and then that inflation is 2% or “even less than 2%,” though the most recent available Consumer Price Index figure is now up to 3%.
The president also deployed multiple other fictional numbers during his exchanges with O’Donnell, which were recorded Friday and released by CBS on Sunday.
- He falsely claimed “$17 trillion” is being invested in the US “right now,” though the $17 trillion figure is nearly double the White House’s own wildly inflated figure.
- He falsely claimed each alleged drug boat the US has attacked in recent weeks “kills 25,000 Americans,” though experts note this figure plainly does not make sense.
- He falsely claimed some recent former presidents invoked the Insurrection Act “28 times,” though no individual president has invoked it on more than six occasions with this record set by President Ulysses S. Grant in the 1800s.
- He falsely claimed he has ended “eight wars,” though his list includes two situations that were not wars at all and at least one war that continues.
- He falsely claimed CBS aired an edited interview with Trump’s 2024 opponent Kamala Harris “two days” before the election, though it was actually more than four full weeks before Election Day.
- He falsely claimed former President Joe Biden gave $350 billion in aid to Ukraine (the real number is well under half that) and allowed in “25 million” migrants (the real number here is well under half that, too).
And Trump made a variety of additional false claims on several subjects, including the government shutdown, the artificial intelligence boom, tariffs, his first impeachment and his former legal battle with “60 Minutes” itself.
I really wonder how many people besides you and me actually read this stuff and bring it up in normal conversation. I know that the MAGATs will never read or hear it. I saved the best for last. This is from my precious Guardian reporting about the heavy-handed editing given to this latest 60 Minutes interview with Trump. Quelle Suprise, y’all! “CBS News heavily edits Trump 60 Minutes interview, cutting boast network ‘paid me a lotta money’. Trump said Paramount’s sale to David and Larry Ellison was ‘greatest thing that’s happened in a long time’ for free press.” This is reported by Jeremy Barr.
The CBS News program 60 Minutes heavily edited down an interview with Donald Trump that aired on Sunday night, his first sit-down with the show in five years.
Trump sat down with correspondent Norah O’Donnell for 90 minutes, but only about 28 minutes were broadcast. A full transcript of the interview was later published, along with a 73-minute-long extended version online.
The edits are notable because, exactly one year before Trump was interviewed by O’Donnell at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday he had sued CBS over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, which he alleged had been deceptively edited to help her chances in the presidential election.
While many legal experts widely dismissed the lawsuit as “meritless” and unlikely to hold up under the first amendment, CBS settled with Trump for $16m in July. As part of the settlement, the network had agreed that it would release transcripts of future interviews of presidential candidates.
At the beginning of Sunday’s show, O’Donnell reminded viewers that Paramount settled Trump’s lawsuit, but noted that “the settlement did not include an apology or admission of wrongdoing”.
During the interview, in a clip that did not air on the broadcast, Trump needled CBS over the settlement and repeated his claims against the network.
“Actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you, and I’m sure you’re not,” Trump said. “But 60 Minutes was forced to pay me a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can’t have fake news. You’ve gotta have legit news. And I think that it’s happening.”
During another un-aired portion of the interview, Trump praised the sale of CBS to the Ellison family and said the network’s new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, was a “great new leader”.
The US president said he didn’t know Weiss, but told O’Donnell: “I hear she’s a great person.
Well, this is getting long for a meager WordPress blog post. “And that’s the way it is.” Can you believe he signed off when I was getting my first graduate degree? Wow! I’m old!
What’s on your Reading, Action, and Blogging List today?
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Mostly Monday Reads: I come to Bury CBS, Not to Praise It
“How can we tire from all this winning?” John Buss, @repeat1968
Good Day, Sky Dancers!
60 Minutes premiered on September 24th, 1968, with Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace. I was barely a teenager when it premiered, but even then, I was growing into fully all the fringed suede and tattered blue jeans I could find with my guitar set filled with the likes of Dylan and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. However, I realized that I was watching something I’d watched for a very long time. Next year, I would buy that Woodstock Guitar strap and cut my first real studio audition. My best friend and I recorded a cover of “One Tin Soldier,” which was requested by Billy Jack for his second movie. Music and the News were the only things that got me through the banality of my life at that point. (Omaha, UGH!)
I spent my entire childhood watching and reading the news with my Dad, through the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and all those crazy times in the 1960s. It was a pivotal moment that led me to become the social justice activist I am today. Reasoner described 60 Minutes as a type of News Magazine, and we had just about all of them that went from our house to the customer service area of my Dad’s small Ford Dealership in a small town in Iowa. It was difficult to get the Washington Post during Watergate, but 60 Minutes was there in living color.
I haven’t really watched in a long time because so much has gone missing. Ever since I got my first newspaper subscription to the Manchester Guardian in High School, I have to say it was part of my education, right through to Graduate School. Now, during the time when I have ever been the least sanguine about our country’s future, I can only say RIP 60 Minutes. These are indeed bleak times. The U.S. Media has a grand old tradition dating back to Benjamin Franklin. It has lost its way to the same evil it sought to expose during World Wars and other events. It has a history of struggle between the powerful entities that seek to control the narrative and the writers who research and reveal the truth. In the age of Techbros and MAGA, Crypto and Virtual Cash, we see a barren landscape destroyed by greed.
I’ll start with the offending program, then offer some perspectives from a number of folks who used to have a place on TV news and are now relegated to the New Deal Blogosphere. I should mention that during that same period of becoming who I am, I wrote for both an underground Newspaper (The Aardvark) and two school newspapers. This blog is an extension of those of us who became very interested again in discussing the news during Dubya’s adventures in the Middle East and the hope we had of simply seeing a woman become president.
This is from CBS News, the former home of everyone’s Uncle Walter, and my personal favorite, Edward Bradley, who always showed up for the New Orleans Jazz Fest, sat with me in monitor world to hear his beloved jazz after I’d put all the microphones in their proper places and dealt with the talent. He always remembered to ask about my daughters by name. It hurts that the overseers used a woman to do this. “Read the full transcript of Norah O’Donnell’s interview with President Trump here.”
Editor’s note: On October 31, 2025, correspondent Norah O’Donnell spoke with President Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, FL, and this is a transcript of that conversation. They started by discussing the president’s recent meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, first of all, we get along great, and we always really have. We had the COVID moment, which was not– attractive as far as I was concerned. I wasn’t so happy. But outside of that, we have always had a great relationship. He’s a powerful man. He’s a strong man, a very powerful leader.
And– we’ve always– had the best of relationships, probably the best of– I could– I think I could speak for him, just about as good as it gets from his standpoint and from my standpoint. And having that is important because of the power of the two countries.
NORAH O’DONNELL: What did you get out of this deal that you wanted?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I got sort of everything that we wanted. We got– no rare earth threat. That’s gone, completely gone. We have tremendous amounts of– dollars pouring in– ’cause we have– very big tariffs, almost 50%. We never had anything in terms of tariffs, although I put tariffs on China, but Biden let it lapsed by the– by the fact that he gave exemptions on almost everything, which was just ridiculous.
By this time, the fact-checking should’ve begun, and some good old-fashioned interrupting with follow-up questions. It went on with none. Instead, we got mealy-mouthed clarifications.
But– we have– billions and billions of dollars coming in, and we have a very good relationship. I mean, we have– a great relationship with a powerful country. And I’ve always felt if we can make deals that are good, it’s better to get along with China than not, if you can’t make the right kind of a deal than not, because, you know, China, along with many other countries (they’re not alone in this), they’ve ripped us off from day one.
They’ve ripped us so much. They’ve taken trillions of dollars out of our country. And now they’re– it’s the opposite. I mean, we’re doing very well with China, and hopefully they’re gonna do very well with us. But I do think it’s important that China and the U.S. get along, and we get along very well at the top.
NORAH O’DONNELL: This trade war, though, was hurting Americans. I mean, our soybean farmers. China had stopped buying the soybeans.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah.
NORAH O’DONNELL: As you mentioned, they were– China was withholding these rare earth materials that you need for everything from smartphones to– to build submarines.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Sure.
NORAH O’DONNELL: What– what was the crucial thing? I mean, how tough of a negotiatior–
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, when you say hurting–
NORAH O’DONNELL: –is President Xi–
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: –it was a temporary hurt. It was a hurt because– I was takin’ in a lot of money from China. We’re doing very well against China. And all of a sudden they said, “You know, we have to fight back.” And so they used their powers. The power they have is rare earth because of the fact that they’ve been accumulating it and– and really taking care of it for a period of 25, 30 years.
Other countries haven’t. Now we are. I mean, we have tremendous rare earth, and it’s going to be– you know, it’s going to be– it’ll be a strength, but it won’t really be a strength if everybody has it. Everyone’s gonna have it pretty soon.
`I would call this full-throated propaganda allowed air time for way too long. Here’s another example before I start telling Norah there’s something brown growing on her nose. It’s further on down the page. I’m just glad I didn’t watch it.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think in two years, we’ll start opening up plants and we’ll have a very substantial portion of the chip market. Right now we have almost none. We should have had a hundred percent. If we had par– if we had presidents that knew anything about business or knew what they were doing, because, frankly, they didn’t.
We lost 50% of our automobile business. It’s all coming back. We lost a hundred percent of the chip– you know, it used to be all Intel and other companies. And what happened is other countries came in, and they stole our chip business, and we didn’t charge tariffs.
If we would have charged let’s say a 100% tariff, none of those companies would have left. But they all left. Now they’re all coming back, Norah, because the only way they avoid the tariffs is to build in our country. If they build in our country, make their plant and make their product in our country, then it’s a very simple thing. They– they don’t have any tariff to pay.
NORAH O’DONNELL: Uh-huh.
Well, she’s certainly not an heir to the Murrow Boys. Like so many, Medhi Hassan left a big desk on a 4-letter network because someone saw him as being a bit too much of a journalist and one of color. He has his own spot out here on his own website.
It’s similar to the choice of my first Newspaper: The Manchester Guardian, which I still read daily as The Guardian. His site, named Zeteo, can be found on Substack on the web, alongside other banished reporters and what used to be known as “Public Intellectuals” rather than influencers. Today’s offering is ” Factchecking Trump on ’60 Minutes’.” He’s taken the place of the major legacy newspapers. The lede is divine. ’60 Minutes’ of Shame and Submission.’
Having watched the whole ‘60 Minutes’ interview and read the entire transcript, too, I genuinely can’t decide what was worse: Trump’s endlessly dishonest answers or O’Donnell’s non-stop softball questions.
I kid you not, here is a short selection of some of the questions this award-winning, highly-paid, veteran news anchor chose to ask the most powerful man on Earth in her limited time with him:
- “Have some of these [ICE] raids gone too far?”
- “Who’s tougher to deal with, Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping?”
- “Why won’t Putin end this war?
- “Do you worry about an AI bubble?”
- “What do you hope to accomplish in the next three years?”
Ooooohh! Tough stuff! The new owner of CBS, David Ellison, and the new head of CBS News, Bari Weiss, must both be so proud. This is the kind of ‘balanced’ coverage I’m sure they were waiting for. Then again, to be fair to them, O’Donnell has a long history of softball interviewing that predates the recent takeover of her network by a MAGA billionaire. Remember her love-in with Saudi crown prince MBS in 2018?
But this isn’t just about O’Donnell or CBS. The ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Trump showcased everything that is wrong with US political interviews in general. The deferential tone. The lack of preparation. The failure to ask follow-up questions or dig deep into an interviewee’s answers. The inability (unwillingness?) to fact-check in real time.
At one point, Trump asked O’Donnell whether she knew “how many presidents have used the Insurrection Act,” to which the CBS anchor simply responded: “Tell me.” Trump then proceeded to lie about the proportion (“Almost 50% of ‘em,” he said, when the real proportion is 38%) and the absolute number (“some of the presidents, recent ones, have used it 28 times,” he said, when the most was actually only six times, and back in the 1870s).
But O’Donnell said nothing. She just moved on.
There were so many falsehoods and half-truths, and so little pushback, that after a while, I gave up. I stopped counting. Here’s what I did manage to catch, in terms of brazen lies, all of which were left unrebutted, uncorrected, unchallenged, by O’Donnell:
- “We had nine wars on our planet. I solved eight of ‘em.” I have debunked this nonsensical claim before.
- “We have no inflation.” Inflation is at 3%.
- “It’s at 2%. It’s– it’s the perfect inflation.” Inflation is at 3%.
- “Right now [grocery prices are] going down.” Grocery prices are up 1.4% since Trump came to office.
- “A year ago, we were a dead country.” Not only did the US have the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in both 2023 and 2024, but the Economist magazine called it “the envy of the world.”
- “11,888 murderers were let into our country.” Not only is this number inaccurate, but many of the non-citizens convicted of homicide either here or abroad came in during Trump’s first term.
- “Washington, DC, was… almost like a crime capital of the world.” In 2023, per PolitiFact, “at least 49 other cities in the world had higher homicide rates.
- “[Biden] hardly went anywhere. Guy couldn’t leave his bedroom.” Not only did Joe Biden visit roughly as many countries in his term of office as Trump did in his first term, but Biden was the first US president to visit an active warzone – Ukraine – not under the control of US forces.
- “I made Middle East peace. For 3,000 years, they couldn’t do it.” There is no peace in Palestine, no peace deal in place, and it isn’t a 3,000-year-old conflict.
- “Communist, not socialist. Communist. He’s far worse than a socialist.” Zohran Mamdani is not a communist.
- “I can’t give them $1.5 trillion so that they can give welfare to people that came into our country illegally.” The Trump/GOP claim that Democrats want to give free healthcare to undocumented immigrants has been repeatedly debunked.
- “They emptied their mental institutions and their insane asylums– into the United States of America.” Asylum seekers don’t come from “insane asylums.” Obviously.
- “One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged.” It wasn’t. The courts agreed.
- “And a lotta people say when it’s rigged you’re allowed to do it again.” A lot of people don’t say this. The US Constitution doesn’t, for sure.
Please read it. The next section lists the questions O’Donnell should have asked as a follow-up. I will say that I believe Mehdi’s follow-up questions in every interview I’ve watched him do are stellar. He points out exaggerations and falsehoods, zeroes in on exactly what the issue with the response is, and just delivers it deliciously. I’m a Fan grrrl. And me, the teenage girl who had to sneak her friend Cathie into the Journalism workspace so she could lust after Kurt Anderson to keep her from going on about him all lunchtime long.
CNN had a more traditional take on said Interview by Daniel Dale. “Fact check: 18 false claims Trump made on ‘60 Minutes’.”
Trump told his usual lie that the free and fair 2020 election was stolen from him. He lied again that grocery prices “are down” even after CBS’ Norah O’Donnell informed him they are up. He declared once more that there is now “no inflation,” though there certainly is, and then that inflation is 2% or “even less than 2%,” though the most recent available Consumer Price Index figure is now up to 3%.
The president also deployed multiple other fictional numbers during his exchanges with O’Donnell, which were recorded Friday and released by CBS on Sunday.
- He falsely claimed “$17 trillion” is being invested in the US “right now,” though the $17 trillion figure is nearly double the White House’s own wildly inflated figure.
- He falsely claimed each alleged drug boat the US has attacked in recent weeks “kills 25,000 Americans,” though experts note this figure plainly does not make sense.
- He falsely claimed some recent former presidents invoked the Insurrection Act “28 times,” though no individual president has invoked it on more than six occasions with this record set by President Ulysses S. Grant in the 1800s.
- He falsely claimed he has ended “eight wars,” though his list includes two situations that were not wars at all and at least one war that continues.
- He falsely claimed CBS aired an edited interview with Trump’s 2024 opponent Kamala Harris “two days” before the election, though it was actually more than four full weeks before Election Day.
- He falsely claimed former President Joe Biden gave $350 billion in aid to Ukraine (the real number is well under half that) and allowed in “25 million” migrants (the real number here is well under half that, too).
And Trump made a variety of additional false claims on several subjects, including the government shutdown, the artificial intelligence boom, tariffs, his first impeachment and his former legal battle with “60 Minutes” itself.
I really wonder how many people besides you and me actually read this stuff and bring it up in normal conversation. I know that the MAGATs will never read or hear it. I saved the best for last. This is from my precious Guardian reporting about the heavy-handed editing given to this latest 60 Minutes interview with Trump. Quelle Suprise, y’all! “CBS News heavily edits Trump 60 Minutes interview, cutting boast network ‘paid me a lotta money’. Trump said Paramount’s sale to David and Larry Ellison was ‘greatest thing that’s happened in a long time’ for free press.” This is reported by Jeremy Barr.
The CBS News program 60 Minutes heavily edited down an interview with Donald Trump that aired on Sunday night, his first sit-down with the show in five years.
Trump sat down with correspondent Norah O’Donnell for 90 minutes, but only about 28 minutes were broadcast. A full transcript of the interview was later published, along with a 73-minute-long extended version online.
The edits are notable because, exactly one year before Trump was interviewed by O’Donnell at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday he had sued CBS over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, which he alleged had been deceptively edited to help her chances in the presidential election.
While many legal experts widely dismissed the lawsuit as “meritless” and unlikely to hold up under the first amendment, CBS settled with Trump for $16m in July. As part of the settlement, the network had agreed that it would release transcripts of future interviews of presidential candidates.
At the beginning of Sunday’s show, O’Donnell reminded viewers that Paramount settled Trump’s lawsuit, but noted that “the settlement did not include an apology or admission of wrongdoing”.
During the interview, in a clip that did not air on the broadcast, Trump needled CBS over the settlement and repeated his claims against the network.
“Actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you, and I’m sure you’re not,” Trump said. “But 60 Minutes was forced to pay me a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can’t have fake news. You’ve gotta have legit news. And I think that it’s happening.”
During another un-aired portion of the interview, Trump praised the sale of CBS to the Ellison family and said the network’s new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, was a “great new leader”.
The US president said he didn’t know Weiss, but told O’Donnell: “I hear she’s a great person.
Well, this is getting long for a meager WordPress blog post.
“And that’s the way it is.” Can you believe he signed off when I was getting my first graduate degree? Wow! I’m old!
What’s on your Reading, Action, and Blogging List today?
#JohnbussBskySocialJohnBuss #Repeat1968 #JohnBuss #NorahODonnell #SixtyMinutes #TalesOfATeenageReporter #TheLegacyMediaSucks #WalterCronkite
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Mostly Monday Reads: I come to Bury CBS, Not to Praise It
“How can we tire from all this winning?” John Buss, @repeat1968
Good Day, Sky Dancers!
60 Minutes premiered on September 24th, 1968, with Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace. I was barely a teenager when it premiered, but even then, I was growing into fully all the fringed suede and tattered blue jeans I could find with my guitar set filled with the likes of Dylan and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. However, I realized that I was watching something I’d watched for a very long time. Next year, I would buy that Woodstock Guitar strap and cut my first real studio audition. My best friend and I recorded a cover of “One Tin Soldier,” which was requested by Billy Jack for his second movie. Music and the News were the only things that got me through the banality of my life at that point. (Omaha, UGH!)
I spent my entire childhood watching and reading the news with my Dad, through the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and all those crazy times in the 1960s. It was a pivotal moment that led me to become the social justice activist I am today. Reasoner described 60 Minutes as a type of News Magazine, and we had just about all of them that went from our house to the customer service area of my Dad’s small Ford Dealership in a small town in Iowa. It was difficult to get the Washington Post during Watergate, but 60 Minutes was there in living color.
I haven’t really watched in a long time because so much has gone missing. Ever since I got my first newspaper subscription to the Manchester Guardian in High School, I have to say it was part of my education, right through to Graduate School. Now, during the time when I have ever been the least sanguine about our country’s future, I can only say RIP 60 Minutes. These are indeed bleak times. The U.S. Media has a grand old tradition dating back to Benjamin Franklin. It has lost its way to the same evil it sought to expose during World Wars and other events. It has a history of struggle between the powerful entities that seek to control the narrative and the writers who research and reveal the truth. In the age of Techbros and MAGA, Crypto and Virtual Cash, we see a barren landscape destroyed by greed.
I’ll start with the offending program, then offer some perspectives from a number of folks who used to have a place on TV news and are now relegated to the New Deal Blogosphere. I should mention that during that same period of becoming who I am, I wrote for both an underground Newspaper (The Aardvark) and two school newspapers. This blog is an extension of those of us who became very interested again in discussing the news during Dubya’s adventures in the Middle East and the hope we had of simply seeing a woman become president.
This is from CBS News, the former home of everyone’s Uncle Walter, and my personal favorite, Edward Bradley, who always showed up for the New Orleans Jazz Fest, sat with me in monitor world to hear his beloved jazz after I’d put all the microphones in their proper places and dealt with the talent. He always remembered to ask about my daughters by name. It hurts that the overseers used a woman to do this. “Read the full transcript of Norah O’Donnell’s interview with President Trump here.”
Editor’s note: On October 31, 2025, correspondent Norah O’Donnell spoke with President Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, FL, and this is a transcript of that conversation. They started by discussing the president’s recent meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, first of all, we get along great, and we always really have. We had the COVID moment, which was not– attractive as far as I was concerned. I wasn’t so happy. But outside of that, we have always had a great relationship. He’s a powerful man. He’s a strong man, a very powerful leader.
And– we’ve always– had the best of relationships, probably the best of– I could– I think I could speak for him, just about as good as it gets from his standpoint and from my standpoint. And having that is important because of the power of the two countries.
NORAH O’DONNELL: What did you get out of this deal that you wanted?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I got sort of everything that we wanted. We got– no rare earth threat. That’s gone, completely gone. We have tremendous amounts of– dollars pouring in– ’cause we have– very big tariffs, almost 50%. We never had anything in terms of tariffs, although I put tariffs on China, but Biden let it lapsed by the– by the fact that he gave exemptions on almost everything, which was just ridiculous.
By this time, the fact-checking should’ve begun, and some good old-fashioned interrupting with follow-up questions. It went on with none. Instead, we got mealy-mouthed clarifications.
But– we have– billions and billions of dollars coming in, and we have a very good relationship. I mean, we have– a great relationship with a powerful country. And I’ve always felt if we can make deals that are good, it’s better to get along with China than not, if you can’t make the right kind of a deal than not, because, you know, China, along with many other countries (they’re not alone in this), they’ve ripped us off from day one.
They’ve ripped us so much. They’ve taken trillions of dollars out of our country. And now they’re– it’s the opposite. I mean, we’re doing very well with China, and hopefully they’re gonna do very well with us. But I do think it’s important that China and the U.S. get along, and we get along very well at the top.
NORAH O’DONNELL: This trade war, though, was hurting Americans. I mean, our soybean farmers. China had stopped buying the soybeans.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah.
NORAH O’DONNELL: As you mentioned, they were– China was withholding these rare earth materials that you need for everything from smartphones to– to build submarines.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Sure.
NORAH O’DONNELL: What– what was the crucial thing? I mean, how tough of a negotiatior–
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, when you say hurting–
NORAH O’DONNELL: –is President Xi–
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: –it was a temporary hurt. It was a hurt because– I was takin’ in a lot of money from China. We’re doing very well against China. And all of a sudden they said, “You know, we have to fight back.” And so they used their powers. The power they have is rare earth because of the fact that they’ve been accumulating it and– and really taking care of it for a period of 25, 30 years.
Other countries haven’t. Now we are. I mean, we have tremendous rare earth, and it’s going to be– you know, it’s going to be– it’ll be a strength, but it won’t really be a strength if everybody has it. Everyone’s gonna have it pretty soon.
`I would call this full-throated propaganda allowed air time for way too long. Here’s another example before I start telling Norah there’s something brown growing on her nose. It’s further on down the page. I’m just glad I didn’t watch it.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think in two years, we’ll start opening up plants and we’ll have a very substantial portion of the chip market. Right now we have almost none. We should have had a hundred percent. If we had par– if we had presidents that knew anything about business or knew what they were doing, because, frankly, they didn’t.
We lost 50% of our automobile business. It’s all coming back. We lost a hundred percent of the chip– you know, it used to be all Intel and other companies. And what happened is other countries came in, and they stole our chip business, and we didn’t charge tariffs.
If we would have charged let’s say a 100% tariff, none of those companies would have left. But they all left. Now they’re all coming back, Norah, because the only way they avoid the tariffs is to build in our country. If they build in our country, make their plant and make their product in our country, then it’s a very simple thing. They– they don’t have any tariff to pay.
NORAH O’DONNELL: Uh-huh.
Well, she’s certainly not an heir to the Murrow Boys. Like so many, Medhi Hassan left a big desk on a 4-letter network because someone saw him as being a bit too much of a journalist and one of color. He has his own spot out here on his own website.
It’s similar to the choice of my first Newspaper: The Manchester Guardian, which I still read daily as The Guardian. His site, named Zeteo, can be found on Substack on the web, alongside other banished reporters and what used to be known as “Public Intellectuals” rather than influencers. Today’s offering is ” Factchecking Trump on ’60 Minutes’.” He’s taken the place of the major legacy newspapers. The lede is divine. ’60 Minutes’ of Shame and Submission.’
Having watched the whole ‘60 Minutes’ interview and read the entire transcript, too, I genuinely can’t decide what was worse: Trump’s endlessly dishonest answers or O’Donnell’s non-stop softball questions.
I kid you not, here is a short selection of some of the questions this award-winning, highly-paid, veteran news anchor chose to ask the most powerful man on Earth in her limited time with him:
- “Have some of these [ICE] raids gone too far?”
- “Who’s tougher to deal with, Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping?”
- “Why won’t Putin end this war?
- “Do you worry about an AI bubble?”
- “What do you hope to accomplish in the next three years?”
Ooooohh! Tough stuff! The new owner of CBS, David Ellison, and the new head of CBS News, Bari Weiss, must both be so proud. This is the kind of ‘balanced’ coverage I’m sure they were waiting for. Then again, to be fair to them, O’Donnell has a long history of softball interviewing that predates the recent takeover of her network by a MAGA billionaire. Remember her love-in with Saudi crown prince MBS in 2018?
But this isn’t just about O’Donnell or CBS. The ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Trump showcased everything that is wrong with US political interviews in general. The deferential tone. The lack of preparation. The failure to ask follow-up questions or dig deep into an interviewee’s answers. The inability (unwillingness?) to fact-check in real time.
At one point, Trump asked O’Donnell whether she knew “how many presidents have used the Insurrection Act,” to which the CBS anchor simply responded: “Tell me.” Trump then proceeded to lie about the proportion (“Almost 50% of ‘em,” he said, when the real proportion is 38%) and the absolute number (“some of the presidents, recent ones, have used it 28 times,” he said, when the most was actually only six times, and back in the 1870s).
But O’Donnell said nothing. She just moved on.
There were so many falsehoods and half-truths, and so little pushback, that after a while, I gave up. I stopped counting. Here’s what I did manage to catch, in terms of brazen lies, all of which were left unrebutted, uncorrected, unchallenged, by O’Donnell:
- “We had nine wars on our planet. I solved eight of ‘em.” I have debunked this nonsensical claim before.
- “We have no inflation.” Inflation is at 3%.
- “It’s at 2%. It’s– it’s the perfect inflation.” Inflation is at 3%.
- “Right now [grocery prices are] going down.” Grocery prices are up 1.4% since Trump came to office.
- “A year ago, we were a dead country.” Not only did the US have the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in both 2023 and 2024, but the Economist magazine called it “the envy of the world.”
- “11,888 murderers were let into our country.” Not only is this number inaccurate, but many of the non-citizens convicted of homicide either here or abroad came in during Trump’s first term.
- “Washington, DC, was… almost like a crime capital of the world.” In 2023, per PolitiFact, “at least 49 other cities in the world had higher homicide rates.
- “[Biden] hardly went anywhere. Guy couldn’t leave his bedroom.” Not only did Joe Biden visit roughly as many countries in his term of office as Trump did in his first term, but Biden was the first US president to visit an active warzone – Ukraine – not under the control of US forces.
- “I made Middle East peace. For 3,000 years, they couldn’t do it.” There is no peace in Palestine, no peace deal in place, and it isn’t a 3,000-year-old conflict.
- “Communist, not socialist. Communist. He’s far worse than a socialist.” Zohran Mamdani is not a communist.
- “I can’t give them $1.5 trillion so that they can give welfare to people that came into our country illegally.” The Trump/GOP claim that Democrats want to give free healthcare to undocumented immigrants has been repeatedly debunked.
- “They emptied their mental institutions and their insane asylums– into the United States of America.” Asylum seekers don’t come from “insane asylums.” Obviously.
- “One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged.” It wasn’t. The courts agreed.
- “And a lotta people say when it’s rigged you’re allowed to do it again.” A lot of people don’t say this. The US Constitution doesn’t, for sure.
Please read it. The next section lists the questions O’Donnell should have asked as a follow-up. I will say that I believe Mehdi’s follow-up questions in every interview I’ve watched him do are stellar. He points out exaggerations and falsehoods, zeroes in on exactly what the issue with the response is, and just delivers it deliciously. I’m a Fan grrrl. And me, the teenage girl who had to sneak her friend Cathie into the Journalism workspace so she could lust after Kurt Anderson to keep her from going on about him all lunchtime long.
CNN had a more traditional take on said Interview by Daniel Dale. “Fact check: 18 false claims Trump made on ‘60 Minutes’.”
Trump told his usual lie that the free and fair 2020 election was stolen from him. He lied again that grocery prices “are down” even after CBS’ Norah O’Donnell informed him they are up. He declared once more that there is now “no inflation,” though there certainly is, and then that inflation is 2% or “even less than 2%,” though the most recent available Consumer Price Index figure is now up to 3%.
The president also deployed multiple other fictional numbers during his exchanges with O’Donnell, which were recorded Friday and released by CBS on Sunday.
- He falsely claimed “$17 trillion” is being invested in the US “right now,” though the $17 trillion figure is nearly double the White House’s own wildly inflated figure.
- He falsely claimed each alleged drug boat the US has attacked in recent weeks “kills 25,000 Americans,” though experts note this figure plainly does not make sense.
- He falsely claimed some recent former presidents invoked the Insurrection Act “28 times,” though no individual president has invoked it on more than six occasions with this record set by President Ulysses S. Grant in the 1800s.
- He falsely claimed he has ended “eight wars,” though his list includes two situations that were not wars at all and at least one war that continues.
- He falsely claimed CBS aired an edited interview with Trump’s 2024 opponent Kamala Harris “two days” before the election, though it was actually more than four full weeks before Election Day.
- He falsely claimed former President Joe Biden gave $350 billion in aid to Ukraine (the real number is well under half that) and allowed in “25 million” migrants (the real number here is well under half that, too).
And Trump made a variety of additional false claims on several subjects, including the government shutdown, the artificial intelligence boom, tariffs, his first impeachment and his former legal battle with “60 Minutes” itself.
I really wonder how many people besides you and me actually read this stuff and bring it up in normal conversation. I know that the MAGATs will never read or hear it. I saved the best for last. This is from my precious Guardian reporting about the heavy-handed editing given to this latest 60 Minutes interview with Trump. Quelle Suprise, y’all! “CBS News heavily edits Trump 60 Minutes interview, cutting boast network ‘paid me a lotta money’. Trump said Paramount’s sale to David and Larry Ellison was ‘greatest thing that’s happened in a long time’ for free press.” This is reported by Jeremy Barr.
The CBS News program 60 Minutes heavily edited down an interview with Donald Trump that aired on Sunday night, his first sit-down with the show in five years.
Trump sat down with correspondent Norah O’Donnell for 90 minutes, but only about 28 minutes were broadcast. A full transcript of the interview was later published, along with a 73-minute-long extended version online.
The edits are notable because, exactly one year before Trump was interviewed by O’Donnell at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday he had sued CBS over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, which he alleged had been deceptively edited to help her chances in the presidential election.
While many legal experts widely dismissed the lawsuit as “meritless” and unlikely to hold up under the first amendment, CBS settled with Trump for $16m in July. As part of the settlement, the network had agreed that it would release transcripts of future interviews of presidential candidates.
At the beginning of Sunday’s show, O’Donnell reminded viewers that Paramount settled Trump’s lawsuit, but noted that “the settlement did not include an apology or admission of wrongdoing”.
During the interview, in a clip that did not air on the broadcast, Trump needled CBS over the settlement and repeated his claims against the network.
“Actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you, and I’m sure you’re not,” Trump said. “But 60 Minutes was forced to pay me a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can’t have fake news. You’ve gotta have legit news. And I think that it’s happening.”
During another un-aired portion of the interview, Trump praised the sale of CBS to the Ellison family and said the network’s new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, was a “great new leader”.
The US president said he didn’t know Weiss, but told O’Donnell: “I hear she’s a great person.
Well, this is getting long for a meager WordPress blog post. “And that’s the way it is.” Can you believe he signed off when I was getting my first graduate degree? Wow! I’m old!
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Hörspiel des Monats November 2025
Auch wenn es dunkel ist. Berichte vom 7. Oktober
von Sharon On und Dirk Laucke
Regie: Sharon On und Dirk Laucke
Mit Berichten von: Sivan, Hamid Abu Arar, Asaf, Ofek und Raz Liwny, Nivi Ochana, Adi Miara, Amit Soussana, Eli Sharabi, Yowel Sharvit, eines Sprechers von ZAKA, Sethuli Nissanka, Ricarda Louk, Natalia Casarotti-Kalfa
Dramaturgie & Redaktion: Juliane Schmidt
Bei Recherche und Übersetzung halfen: Jaron Löwenberg, Tomer Lev-Tov, Shani Arnheim, Hila Bitterman
Produktion: RBB 2025
Länge: 62 Min.
Ursendung: RBB Radio 3, So, 05.10,2025, 16.00 UhrDie Begründung der Jury
Das Thema ist aktueller als viele es wahrhaben wollen. Antisemitismus ist wieder en vogue, es sind in der medialen und gesellschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit mittlerweile wieder Dinge sagbar, von denen wir gedacht hatten, dass wir sie ein für alle Mal überwunden haben. Das war ein Irrtum, und das schlimmste ist, dass sich alle, die judenfeindliche Gedanken in sich und nun eben auch wieder ohne Scheu nach außen tragen, an dieser Stelle die Hände zu reichen scheinen – Neonazis, verwirrte „Linke“, muslimische Islamisten und „ganz normale“ Leute.
„Auch wenn es dunkel ist“ erzählt die Geschichte vom 7. Oktober 2023, als islamistische Hamas-Terroristen vom Gaza-Streifen aus Israel überfielen und dort ein Massaker anrichteten, bei dem mehr als 1200 Menschen bestialisch ermordet, vergewaltigt und verschleppt wurden. Die Bilder und Berichte gingen um die Welt, und wir alle wissen, was an diesem Tag dort passiert ist.
Wenn uns dieses Hörspiel nun diese Geschichten aber hautnah erzählt, wenn Angehörige von Opfern dieser abscheulichen Taten zu Wort kommen, wenn wir Sprachnachrichten verzweifelter Menschen aus ihren Schutzräumen in den Kibbuzim hören, dann verfehlt das seine Wirkung nicht.
Wir müssen uns mit diesen Zeitzeugen-Berichten beschäftigen, auch wenn es schmerzhaft ist. Wir dürfen dazu nicht schweigen, und wir müssen denen, die diese widerlichen Aktionen feiern, die bei linken, rechten oder islamistischen Demonstrationen mit roten Dreiecken den Terror der Hamas gutheißen, entschlossen entgegentreten. Genau das tut „Auch wenn es dunkel ist“. Die Zeitzeugen-Berichte, die wir hier ungefiltert hören, sprechen für sich. Danke dafür!
Das Hörspiel des Monats wird am Samstag, den 06.12.2025 um 20.05 Uhr im Deutschlandfunk (DLF) wiederholt.
Die Nominierungen
2025-01-02, Frauen und Fiktion: Hallo, ich bin Geld, DLF Kultur
2025-01-08, David Lindemann: Echokammer, DLF Kultur
2025-01-13, Ulrike Haage: Nichts ist, sagt der Weise, RBB
2025-01-18, Merzouga: Wildly tender is thy music – Lieder aus dem Moor, DLF
2025-01-24, Helmut Peschina: Treibholz, ORF2025-02-01, Heiner Goebbels: Orakelmaschine, SWR
2025-02-17, Michael Stauffer: Ihr habt echt keine Ahnung, in der Schweiz gab es nie Sowjetunion, SRF2025-03-03, AnniKa von Trier: Spurensuche Hannah Höch, rbb
2025-03-03, David Paquet: Sternschnupfen, SR
2025-03-06, Anonym: 1001 Nacht nach der Neuübersetzung von Claudia Ott, DLF
2025-03-12, Andi Unger: Es gibt kein richtiges Leben, ihr Flaschen!, BR
2025-03-19, C. F. Ramuz: Sturz in die Sonne, SRF
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 1 von 10 – Erwerb von Urlaubskompetenz, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 2 von 10 – Pre-Holiday-Holiday, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 3 von 10 – Spaß! Spaß! Spaß!, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-31, Sathyan Ramesh: Lélé, hr2025-04-01, Akin Emanuel Sipal: Mutter Vater Land, BR
2025-04-03, Basil Zecchinel / Clara Schiltenwolf: Requiem for a lobster, DLF
2025-04-03, Olga Ravn: Die Angestellten, DLF Kultur
2025-04-03, Schorsch Kamerun: Bevor wir kippen, DLF Kultur
2025-04-06, Maike Wetzel: Schwebende Brücken, SWR
2025-04-10, Dominika Jerkić & Marc Matter: Oroboro, SWR
2025-04-15, Ernst Jünger: Auf den Marmorklippen, SWR
2025-04-15, Walter Filz / Edgar Allan Poe: Der Untergang des Hauses, SWR
2025-04-16, Peter Bichsel: Nichts Besonderes, SRF
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 1 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 2 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 3 von 3, MDR2025-05-06, Noam Brusilovsky / Ofer Waldman: Wer weiß wer kennt, rbb
2025-05-13, Dominik Bernet: Brot weint, SRF
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 3 von 6 – Der Meisterdieb, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 4 von 6 – Zu viel Zaster, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 5 von 6 – Totale Krise, hr
2025-05-23, Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Der Untergang der Titanic, ORF2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 1 – Emily Pop, SWR
2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 2 – I.K, SWR
2025-06-04, Leonie Ziem: Kind aus Seide, SWR
2025-06-05, Armin Smailovic: Branko Simic: Srebrenica, DLF Kultur
2025-06-05, Michel Decar: Die Kobra von Kreuzberg, DLF Kultur
2025-06-13, Sabine Ludwig: Und dann saß ich da mit meinen 7 Unterhosen in der Hand, rbb
2025-06-17, Magda Woitzuck: Mallorca, Mord und Margaritas, hr2025-07-03, Albrecht Kunze: Das Ding aus keiner anderen Welt als dieser, SWR
2025-07-03, Sven Recker: Der Afrik, SWR
2025-07-04, Stefan M. Bürkner: Gestern war die Welt noch schlecht, DLF Kultur
2025-07-22 Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Nachtflug, ORF
2025-07-04, Gregor Schmalzried: Mia Insomnia 3, BR
2025-07-22, Philipp Blom: Vier Stürme, ein Sturm, ORF
2025-07-07, Raoul Schrott: Sternenhimmel der Menschheit, BR
2025-07-27, Friedrich Ani: Die Wut der Wellen, NDR2025-08-18, Stefanie Sargnagel: Iowa – Ein Ausflug nach Amerika, ORF / DLF Kultur
2025-08-28, Felix Kubin: FLOW – Beyond Baroque and Words, BR2025-09-04, Caroline Wahl: Windstärke 17, HR
2025-09-04,Dana von Suffrin: NIEWIEDERGUT, BR
2025-09-04, Lene Albrecht: Kamina, DLF Kultur
2025-09-04, Magda Woitzuck: Zwei Schwestern, HR
2025-09-04, Marlen Hobrack: Schrödingers Grrrl, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Fabian Saul: Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Marcus Steinweg: Metaphysik der Leere, DLF
2025-09-11, Lars Werner: Das Ende des Westens, rbb
2025-09-15, Victor Sattler: Stolpertexte Folge 7 Hoffentlich ist es dann noch nicht zu spät, MDR
2025-09-25, Dirk Schmidt: Crrowl, RB2025-10-04, Yannic Han Biao Federer: Für immer seh ich dich wieder, NDR
2025-10-16, Bergsveinn Birgisson: Antwort auf den Brief von Helga, ORF-SF
2025-10-20, Gesche Piening: Göttlich bleiben, BR
2025-10-22, Jovana Reisinger: Das große Leid, das kleine Leben, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Leonhard F. Seidl: Fronten, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Natalie Baudy: Fairycoin, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Herta Müller: Die Welt schaukelt und du willst glücklich sein, DLF
2025-10-30, Kai Grehn: Imiona nurtu – Die Namen der Strömung, SWR
2025-10-30, Ricarda Messner: Wo der Name wohnt, SWR#AuchWennEsDunkelIst #BerichteVom7Oktober #DirkLaucke #HörspielDesMonats #SharonOn
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Hörspiel des Monats November 2025
Auch wenn es dunkel ist. Berichte vom 7. Oktober
von Sharon On und Dirk Laucke
Regie: Sharon On und Dirk Laucke
Mit Berichten von: Sivan, Hamid Abu Arar, Asaf, Ofek und Raz Liwny, Nivi Ochana, Adi Miara, Amit Soussana, Eli Sharabi, Yowel Sharvit, eines Sprechers von ZAKA, Sethuli Nissanka, Ricarda Louk, Natalia Casarotti-Kalfa
Dramaturgie & Redaktion: Juliane Schmidt
Bei Recherche und Übersetzung halfen: Jaron Löwenberg, Tomer Lev-Tov, Shani Arnheim, Hila Bitterman
Produktion: RBB 2025
Länge: 62 Min.
Ursendung: RBB Radio 3, So, 05.10,2025, 16.00 UhrDie Begründung der Jury
Das Thema ist aktueller als viele es wahrhaben wollen. Antisemitismus ist wieder en vogue, es sind in der medialen und gesellschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit mittlerweile wieder Dinge sagbar, von denen wir gedacht hatten, dass wir sie ein für alle Mal überwunden haben. Das war ein Irrtum, und das schlimmste ist, dass sich alle, die judenfeindliche Gedanken in sich und nun eben auch wieder ohne Scheu nach außen tragen, an dieser Stelle die Hände zu reichen scheinen – Neonazis, verwirrte „Linke“, muslimische Islamisten und „ganz normale“ Leute.
„Auch wenn es dunkel ist“ erzählt die Geschichte vom 7. Oktober 2023, als islamistische Hamas-Terroristen vom Gaza-Streifen aus Israel überfielen und dort ein Massaker anrichteten, bei dem mehr als 1200 Menschen bestialisch ermordet, vergewaltigt und verschleppt wurden. Die Bilder und Berichte gingen um die Welt, und wir alle wissen, was an diesem Tag dort passiert ist.
Wenn uns dieses Hörspiel nun diese Geschichten aber hautnah erzählt, wenn Angehörige von Opfern dieser abscheulichen Taten zu Wort kommen, wenn wir Sprachnachrichten verzweifelter Menschen aus ihren Schutzräumen in den Kibbuzim hören, dann verfehlt das seine Wirkung nicht.
Wir müssen uns mit diesen Zeitzeugen-Berichten beschäftigen, auch wenn es schmerzhaft ist. Wir dürfen dazu nicht schweigen, und wir müssen denen, die diese widerlichen Aktionen feiern, die bei linken, rechten oder islamistischen Demonstrationen mit roten Dreiecken den Terror der Hamas gutheißen, entschlossen entgegentreten. Genau das tut „Auch wenn es dunkel ist“. Die Zeitzeugen-Berichte, die wir hier ungefiltert hören, sprechen für sich. Danke dafür!
Das Hörspiel des Monats wird am Samstag, den 06.12.2025 um 20.05 Uhr im Deutschlandfunk (DLF) wiederholt.
Die Nominierungen
2025-01-02, Frauen und Fiktion: Hallo, ich bin Geld, DLF Kultur
2025-01-08, David Lindemann: Echokammer, DLF Kultur
2025-01-13, Ulrike Haage: Nichts ist, sagt der Weise, RBB
2025-01-18, Merzouga: Wildly tender is thy music – Lieder aus dem Moor, DLF
2025-01-24, Helmut Peschina: Treibholz, ORF2025-02-01, Heiner Goebbels: Orakelmaschine, SWR
2025-02-17, Michael Stauffer: Ihr habt echt keine Ahnung, in der Schweiz gab es nie Sowjetunion, SRF2025-03-03, AnniKa von Trier: Spurensuche Hannah Höch, rbb
2025-03-03, David Paquet: Sternschnupfen, SR
2025-03-06, Anonym: 1001 Nacht nach der Neuübersetzung von Claudia Ott, DLF
2025-03-12, Andi Unger: Es gibt kein richtiges Leben, ihr Flaschen!, BR
2025-03-19, C. F. Ramuz: Sturz in die Sonne, SRF
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 1 von 10 – Erwerb von Urlaubskompetenz, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 2 von 10 – Pre-Holiday-Holiday, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 3 von 10 – Spaß! Spaß! Spaß!, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-31, Sathyan Ramesh: Lélé, hr2025-04-01, Akin Emanuel Sipal: Mutter Vater Land, BR
2025-04-03, Basil Zecchinel / Clara Schiltenwolf: Requiem for a lobster, DLF
2025-04-03, Olga Ravn: Die Angestellten, DLF Kultur
2025-04-03, Schorsch Kamerun: Bevor wir kippen, DLF Kultur
2025-04-06, Maike Wetzel: Schwebende Brücken, SWR
2025-04-10, Dominika Jerkić & Marc Matter: Oroboro, SWR
2025-04-15, Ernst Jünger: Auf den Marmorklippen, SWR
2025-04-15, Walter Filz / Edgar Allan Poe: Der Untergang des Hauses, SWR
2025-04-16, Peter Bichsel: Nichts Besonderes, SRF
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 1 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 2 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 3 von 3, MDR2025-05-06, Noam Brusilovsky / Ofer Waldman: Wer weiß wer kennt, rbb
2025-05-13, Dominik Bernet: Brot weint, SRF
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 3 von 6 – Der Meisterdieb, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 4 von 6 – Zu viel Zaster, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 5 von 6 – Totale Krise, hr
2025-05-23, Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Der Untergang der Titanic, ORF2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 1 – Emily Pop, SWR
2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 2 – I.K, SWR
2025-06-04, Leonie Ziem: Kind aus Seide, SWR
2025-06-05, Armin Smailovic: Branko Simic: Srebrenica, DLF Kultur
2025-06-05, Michel Decar: Die Kobra von Kreuzberg, DLF Kultur
2025-06-13, Sabine Ludwig: Und dann saß ich da mit meinen 7 Unterhosen in der Hand, rbb
2025-06-17, Magda Woitzuck: Mallorca, Mord und Margaritas, hr2025-07-03, Albrecht Kunze: Das Ding aus keiner anderen Welt als dieser, SWR
2025-07-03, Sven Recker: Der Afrik, SWR
2025-07-04, Stefan M. Bürkner: Gestern war die Welt noch schlecht, DLF Kultur
2025-07-22 Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Nachtflug, ORF
2025-07-04, Gregor Schmalzried: Mia Insomnia 3, BR
2025-07-22, Philipp Blom: Vier Stürme, ein Sturm, ORF
2025-07-07, Raoul Schrott: Sternenhimmel der Menschheit, BR
2025-07-27, Friedrich Ani: Die Wut der Wellen, NDR2025-08-18, Stefanie Sargnagel: Iowa – Ein Ausflug nach Amerika, ORF / DLF Kultur
2025-08-28, Felix Kubin: FLOW – Beyond Baroque and Words, BR2025-09-04, Caroline Wahl: Windstärke 17, HR
2025-09-04,Dana von Suffrin: NIEWIEDERGUT, BR
2025-09-04, Lene Albrecht: Kamina, DLF Kultur
2025-09-04, Magda Woitzuck: Zwei Schwestern, HR
2025-09-04, Marlen Hobrack: Schrödingers Grrrl, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Fabian Saul: Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Marcus Steinweg: Metaphysik der Leere, DLF
2025-09-11, Lars Werner: Das Ende des Westens, rbb
2025-09-15, Victor Sattler: Stolpertexte Folge 7 Hoffentlich ist es dann noch nicht zu spät, MDR
2025-09-25, Dirk Schmidt: Crrowl, RB2025-10-04, Yannic Han Biao Federer: Für immer seh ich dich wieder, NDR
2025-10-16, Bergsveinn Birgisson: Antwort auf den Brief von Helga, ORF-SF
2025-10-20, Gesche Piening: Göttlich bleiben, BR
2025-10-22, Jovana Reisinger: Das große Leid, das kleine Leben, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Leonhard F. Seidl: Fronten, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Natalie Baudy: Fairycoin, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Herta Müller: Die Welt schaukelt und du willst glücklich sein, DLF
2025-10-30, Kai Grehn: Imiona nurtu – Die Namen der Strömung, SWR
2025-10-30, Ricarda Messner: Wo der Name wohnt, SWR#AuchWennEsDunkelIst #BerichteVom7Oktober #DirkLaucke #HörspielDesMonats #SharonOn
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Hörspiel des Monats November 2025
Auch wenn es dunkel ist. Berichte vom 7. Oktober
von Sharon On und Dirk Laucke
Regie: Sharon On und Dirk Laucke
Mit Berichten von: Sivan, Hamid Abu Arar, Asaf, Ofek und Raz Liwny, Nivi Ochana, Adi Miara, Amit Soussana, Eli Sharabi, Yowel Sharvit, eines Sprechers von ZAKA, Sethuli Nissanka, Ricarda Louk, Natalia Casarotti-Kalfa
Dramaturgie & Redaktion: Juliane Schmidt
Bei Recherche und Übersetzung halfen: Jaron Löwenberg, Tomer Lev-Tov, Shani Arnheim, Hila Bitterman
Produktion: RBB 2025
Länge: 62 Min.
Ursendung: RBB Radio 3, So, 05.10,2025, 16.00 UhrDie Begründung der Jury
Das Thema ist aktueller als viele es wahrhaben wollen. Antisemitismus ist wieder en vogue, es sind in der medialen und gesellschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit mittlerweile wieder Dinge sagbar, von denen wir gedacht hatten, dass wir sie ein für alle Mal überwunden haben. Das war ein Irrtum, und das schlimmste ist, dass sich alle, die judenfeindliche Gedanken in sich und nun eben auch wieder ohne Scheu nach außen tragen, an dieser Stelle die Hände zu reichen scheinen – Neonazis, verwirrte „Linke“, muslimische Islamisten und „ganz normale“ Leute.
„Auch wenn es dunkel ist“ erzählt die Geschichte vom 7. Oktober 2023, als islamistische Hamas-Terroristen vom Gaza-Streifen aus Israel überfielen und dort ein Massaker anrichteten, bei dem mehr als 1200 Menschen bestialisch ermordet, vergewaltigt und verschleppt wurden. Die Bilder und Berichte gingen um die Welt, und wir alle wissen, was an diesem Tag dort passiert ist.
Wenn uns dieses Hörspiel nun diese Geschichten aber hautnah erzählt, wenn Angehörige von Opfern dieser abscheulichen Taten zu Wort kommen, wenn wir Sprachnachrichten verzweifelter Menschen aus ihren Schutzräumen in den Kibbuzim hören, dann verfehlt das seine Wirkung nicht.
Wir müssen uns mit diesen Zeitzeugen-Berichten beschäftigen, auch wenn es schmerzhaft ist. Wir dürfen dazu nicht schweigen, und wir müssen denen, die diese widerlichen Aktionen feiern, die bei linken, rechten oder islamistischen Demonstrationen mit roten Dreiecken den Terror der Hamas gutheißen, entschlossen entgegentreten. Genau das tut „Auch wenn es dunkel ist“. Die Zeitzeugen-Berichte, die wir hier ungefiltert hören, sprechen für sich. Danke dafür!
Das Hörspiel des Monats wird am Samstag, den 06.12.2025 um 20.05 Uhr im Deutschlandfunk (DLF) wiederholt.
Die Nominierungen
2025-01-02, Frauen und Fiktion: Hallo, ich bin Geld, DLF Kultur
2025-01-08, David Lindemann: Echokammer, DLF Kultur
2025-01-13, Ulrike Haage: Nichts ist, sagt der Weise, RBB
2025-01-18, Merzouga: Wildly tender is thy music – Lieder aus dem Moor, DLF
2025-01-24, Helmut Peschina: Treibholz, ORF2025-02-01, Heiner Goebbels: Orakelmaschine, SWR
2025-02-17, Michael Stauffer: Ihr habt echt keine Ahnung, in der Schweiz gab es nie Sowjetunion, SRF2025-03-03, AnniKa von Trier: Spurensuche Hannah Höch, rbb
2025-03-03, David Paquet: Sternschnupfen, SR
2025-03-06, Anonym: 1001 Nacht nach der Neuübersetzung von Claudia Ott, DLF
2025-03-12, Andi Unger: Es gibt kein richtiges Leben, ihr Flaschen!, BR
2025-03-19, C. F. Ramuz: Sturz in die Sonne, SRF
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 1 von 10 – Erwerb von Urlaubskompetenz, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 2 von 10 – Pre-Holiday-Holiday, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 3 von 10 – Spaß! Spaß! Spaß!, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-31, Sathyan Ramesh: Lélé, hr2025-04-01, Akin Emanuel Sipal: Mutter Vater Land, BR
2025-04-03, Basil Zecchinel / Clara Schiltenwolf: Requiem for a lobster, DLF
2025-04-03, Olga Ravn: Die Angestellten, DLF Kultur
2025-04-03, Schorsch Kamerun: Bevor wir kippen, DLF Kultur
2025-04-06, Maike Wetzel: Schwebende Brücken, SWR
2025-04-10, Dominika Jerkić & Marc Matter: Oroboro, SWR
2025-04-15, Ernst Jünger: Auf den Marmorklippen, SWR
2025-04-15, Walter Filz / Edgar Allan Poe: Der Untergang des Hauses, SWR
2025-04-16, Peter Bichsel: Nichts Besonderes, SRF
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 1 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 2 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 3 von 3, MDR2025-05-06, Noam Brusilovsky / Ofer Waldman: Wer weiß wer kennt, rbb
2025-05-13, Dominik Bernet: Brot weint, SRF
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 3 von 6 – Der Meisterdieb, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 4 von 6 – Zu viel Zaster, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 5 von 6 – Totale Krise, hr
2025-05-23, Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Der Untergang der Titanic, ORF2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 1 – Emily Pop, SWR
2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 2 – I.K, SWR
2025-06-04, Leonie Ziem: Kind aus Seide, SWR
2025-06-05, Armin Smailovic: Branko Simic: Srebrenica, DLF Kultur
2025-06-05, Michel Decar: Die Kobra von Kreuzberg, DLF Kultur
2025-06-13, Sabine Ludwig: Und dann saß ich da mit meinen 7 Unterhosen in der Hand, rbb
2025-06-17, Magda Woitzuck: Mallorca, Mord und Margaritas, hr2025-07-03, Albrecht Kunze: Das Ding aus keiner anderen Welt als dieser, SWR
2025-07-03, Sven Recker: Der Afrik, SWR
2025-07-04, Stefan M. Bürkner: Gestern war die Welt noch schlecht, DLF Kultur
2025-07-22 Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Nachtflug, ORF
2025-07-04, Gregor Schmalzried: Mia Insomnia 3, BR
2025-07-22, Philipp Blom: Vier Stürme, ein Sturm, ORF
2025-07-07, Raoul Schrott: Sternenhimmel der Menschheit, BR
2025-07-27, Friedrich Ani: Die Wut der Wellen, NDR2025-08-18, Stefanie Sargnagel: Iowa – Ein Ausflug nach Amerika, ORF / DLF Kultur
2025-08-28, Felix Kubin: FLOW – Beyond Baroque and Words, BR2025-09-04, Caroline Wahl: Windstärke 17, HR
2025-09-04,Dana von Suffrin: NIEWIEDERGUT, BR
2025-09-04, Lene Albrecht: Kamina, DLF Kultur
2025-09-04, Magda Woitzuck: Zwei Schwestern, HR
2025-09-04, Marlen Hobrack: Schrödingers Grrrl, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Fabian Saul: Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Marcus Steinweg: Metaphysik der Leere, DLF
2025-09-11, Lars Werner: Das Ende des Westens, rbb
2025-09-15, Victor Sattler: Stolpertexte Folge 7 Hoffentlich ist es dann noch nicht zu spät, MDR
2025-09-25, Dirk Schmidt: Crrowl, RB2025-10-04, Yannic Han Biao Federer: Für immer seh ich dich wieder, NDR
2025-10-16, Bergsveinn Birgisson: Antwort auf den Brief von Helga, ORF-SF
2025-10-20, Gesche Piening: Göttlich bleiben, BR
2025-10-22, Jovana Reisinger: Das große Leid, das kleine Leben, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Leonhard F. Seidl: Fronten, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Natalie Baudy: Fairycoin, DLF Kultur
2025-10-22, Herta Müller: Die Welt schaukelt und du willst glücklich sein, DLF
2025-10-30, Kai Grehn: Imiona nurtu – Die Namen der Strömung, SWR
2025-10-30, Ricarda Messner: Wo der Name wohnt, SWR
#AuchWennEsDunkelIst #BerichteVom7Oktober #DirkLaucke #HörspielDesMonats #SharonOn -
Hörspiel des Monats Oktober 2025
Der Gebrauch des Menschen
von Aleksandar Tišma
Übersetzung: Barbara Antkowiak
Dramaturgie, Bearbeitung und Regie: Stefan Kanis
Komposition: Tommy Neuwirth, Mario Weise
Produktion: MDR 2025
Länge: Teil 1: 50:18 / Teil 2: 49:20 / Teil 3: 54:28
Ursendung: MDR Kultur, 28.4., 5.5.,12.5.2025Die Begründung der Jury
Was für ein Bogen! Was für eine Erzählung! Sie umspannt mehrere Leben. Was für eine kluge, eine interessante Adaption! Was für ein intensives, herausforderndes Stück.
Novi Sad, im Norden Serbiens. Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts wechselte die Stadt mehrmals die staatliche Zuordnung. So leben hier in den 30er Jahren Juden, Serben, Ungarn und Deutsche friedlich zusammen. Die drei Jugendlichen Vera, Milenko und Sredoje lernen sich im Privatunterricht eines deutschen Fräuleins kennen, den sie mehr oder weniger von den Eltern genötigt besuchen, um die schwere Sprache zu lernen. Vera und Milenko werden schnell ein Paar, wobei der wissensdurstige Junge sich eher für die Bibliothek von Veras Vater als für seine schöne Freundin interessiert. Der Haudegen Sredoje ist mehr für körperliche Freuden zu haben. Er äugt hin und wieder nach Vera. Doch die ist ja eine Klasse für sich.
So leicht, so heiter, so melancholisch beginnt die Geschichte und doch spüren wir schon die kommende Katastrophe. Während ihr jüdischer Vater noch auf Rettung hofft, weiß Vera schon vor ihm, dass es diese nicht gibt. Die Familie wird nach Auschwitz deportiert, wo Vera Zwangsprostituierte wird und überlebt. Sie kehrt nach Novi Sad zurück. Taumelt durch ihr neues Dasein und kann doch nicht vergessen. Da trifft sie Sredoje wieder, der als Partisan gekämpft hat und sich in der neuen Zeit ebenfalls nicht zurechtfindet.
Was für ein Bogen! Was für eine Erzählung! Sie umspannt mehrere Leben. Schicksale, die sich nur unweit von uns entfernt ereignet haben und dennoch so weit weg scheinen, als hätten sie nichts mit uns zu tun. Daran zu erinnern, dass dies, auch dies, unsere Geschichte ist, ist nur ein Aspekt dieses sehr gelungenen Hörspiels.
Es erzählt über drei Teile, von den 30ern bis in die 50er Jahre, die Geschichte der anfangs jugendlichen Protagonisten, fokussiert im zweiten Teil stärker auf Vera und schildert im sehr starken dritten Teil deren Heimkehr, Haltlosigkeit und das Unverständnis der anderen Überlebenden, die vergessen können, was Vera nicht vergessen kann.
Roman-Adaptionen sind kein leichtes Unterfangen. Wie wird man der Sprache gerecht, dieser Ausdruckskraft? Wie dem Umfang? Das Hörspiel von Stefan Kanis findet in beiden Fällen kluge Lösungen, die den Hörer herausfordern. Dramaturgisch gekonnt findet hier eine Steigerung statt. Deuten sich im ersten Teil schon die künftigen Konflikte an, steigert sich die Erzählung im zweiten Teil hin zu einer möglichen Rettung, die jedoch nicht stattfindet. Der aufwühlende dritte Teil erzählt die Katastrophe nach der Katastrophe. Er ist der intensivste der drei Teile, eine Entwicklung, die fast zwangsläufig erscheint.
Sprachlich bleibt das Stück eng an Aleksandar Tišmas Roman und dessen genialer Übersetzung (Barbara Antkowiak), verneigt sich vor deren Stil. Elegant findet Regisseur Stefan Kanis eine Ebene zwischen Drama und Erzählung. So werden wir immer wieder auf die literarische Kraft des Romans verwiesen.
Bericht, Erzählung und Dialog wechseln einander ab, wodurch eine gewisse Distanz entsteht. Jegliches Pathos wird auf diese Weise vermieden. Umso stärker die Wucht des Erzählten. Das Stück lässt uns Raum, uns Szenen vorzustellen, die Lücken der Zeitsprünge zu füllen. Was Vera in Auschwitz erlebt haben muss, wird nur knapp angedeutet. Wir verstehen und erahnen es anhand ihrer Unfähigkeit, im Frieden anzukommen. In ihrem Innern ist immer noch Krieg, was sie mit dem ebenfalls traumatisierten Sredoje verbindet. In dieser Gemeinschaft, so versehrt sie ist, steckt ein wenig Hoffnung – mehr zu erahnen, als tatsächlich vorhanden, mehr in unserer Phantasie. Denn leicht machen es uns die Schöpfer dieses Hörspiels nicht, sie wollen, sie können nichts beschönigen. Was für eine kluge, eine interessante Adaption! Was für ein intensives, herausforderndes Stück.
Das Hörspiel des Monats wird am Samstag, den 01.11.2025 um 20.05 Uhr im Deutschlandfunk (DLF) wiederholt.
Die Nominierungen
2025-01-02, Frauen und Fiktion: Hallo, ich bin Geld, DLF Kultur
2025-01-08, David Lindemann: Echokammer, DLF Kultur
2025-01-13, Ulrike Haage: Nichts ist, sagt der Weise, RBB
2025-01-18, Merzouga: Wildly tender is thy music – Lieder aus dem Moor, DLF
2025-01-24, Helmut Peschina: Treibholz, ORF2025-02-01, Heiner Goebbels: Orakelmaschine, SWR
2025-02-17, Michael Stauffer: Ihr habt echt keine Ahnung, in der Schweiz gab es nie Sowjetunion, SRF2025-03-03, AnniKa von Trier: Spurensuche Hannah Höch, rbb
2025-03-03, David Paquet: Sternschnupfen, SR
2025-03-06, Anonym: 1001 Nacht nach der Neuübersetzung von Claudia Ott, DLF
2025-03-12, Andi Unger: Es gibt kein richtiges Leben, ihr Flaschen!, BR
2025-03-19, C. F. Ramuz: Sturz in die Sonne, SRF
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 1 von 10 – Erwerb von Urlaubskompetenz, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 2 von 10 – Pre-Holiday-Holiday, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 3 von 10 – Spaß! Spaß! Spaß!, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-31, Sathyan Ramesh: Lélé, hr2025-04-01, Akin Emanuel Sipal: Mutter Vater Land, BR
2025-04-03, Basil Zecchinel / Clara Schiltenwolf: Requiem for a lobster, DLF
2025-04-03, Olga Ravn: Die Angestellten, DLF Kultur
2025-04-03, Schorsch Kamerun: Bevor wir kippen, DLF Kultur
2025-04-06, Maike Wetzel: Schwebende Brücken, SWR
2025-04-10, Dominika Jerkić & Marc Matter: Oroboro, SWR
2025-04-15, Ernst Jünger: Auf den Marmorklippen, SWR
2025-04-15, Walter Filz / Edgar Allan Poe: Der Untergang des Hauses, SWR
2025-04-16, Peter Bichsel: Nichts Besonderes, SRF
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 1 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 2 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 3 von 3, MDR2025-05-06, Noam Brusilovsky / Ofer Waldman: Wer weiß wer kennt, rbb
2025-05-13, Dominik Bernet: Brot weint, SRF
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 3 von 6 – Der Meisterdieb, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 4 von 6 – Zu viel Zaster, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 5 von 6 – Totale Krise, hr
2025-05-23, Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Der Untergang der Titanic, ORF2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 1 – Emily Pop, SWR
2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 2 – I.K, SWR
2025-06-04, Leonie Ziem: Kind aus Seide, SWR
2025-06-05, Armin Smailovic: Branko Simic: Srebrenica, DLF Kultur
2025-06-05, Michel Decar: Die Kobra von Kreuzberg, DLF Kultur
2025-06-13, Sabine Ludwig: Und dann saß ich da mit meinen 7 Unterhosen in der Hand, rbb
2025-06-17, Magda Woitzuck: Mallorca, Mord und Margaritas, hr2025-07-03, Albrecht Kunze: Das Ding aus keiner anderen Welt als dieser, SWR
2025-07-03, Sven Recker: Der Afrik, SWR
2025-07-04, Stefan M. Bürkner: Gestern war die Welt noch schlecht, DLF Kultur
2025-07-22 Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Nachtflug, ORF
2025-07-04, Gregor Schmalzried: Mia Insomnia 3, BR
2025-07-22, Philipp Blom: Vier Stürme, ein Sturm, ORF
2025-07-07, Raoul Schrott: Sternenhimmel der Menschheit, BR
2025-07-27, Friedrich Ani: Die Wut der Wellen, NDR2025-08-18, Stefanie Sargnagel: Iowa – Ein Ausflug nach Amerika, ORF / DLF Kultur
2025-08-28, Felix Kubin: FLOW – Beyond Baroque and Words, BR2025-09-04, Caroline Wahl: Windstärke 17, HR
2025-09-04,Dana von Suffrin: NIEWIEDERGUT, BR
2025-09-04, Lene Albrecht: Kamina, DLF Kultur
2025-09-04, Magda Woitzuck: Zwei Schwestern, HR
2025-09-04, Marlen Hobrack: Schrödingers Grrrl, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Fabian Saul: Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Marcus Steinweg: Metaphysik der Leere, DLF
2025-09-11, Lars Werner: Das Ende des Westens, rbb
2025-09-15, Victor Sattler: Stolpertexte Folge 7 Hoffentlich ist es dann noch nicht zu spät, MDR
2025-09-25, Dirk Schmidt: Crrowl, RB#AleksandarTišma #HörspielDesMonats #MDR #VomGebrauchDesMenschen
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Hörspiel des Monats Oktober 2025
Der Gebrauch des Menschen
von Aleksandar Tišma
Übersetzung: Barbara Antkowiak
Dramaturgie, Bearbeitung und Regie: Stefan Kanis
Komposition: Tommy Neuwirth, Mario Weise
Produktion: MDR 2025
Länge: Teil 1: 50:18 / Teil 2: 49:20 / Teil 3: 54:28
Ursendung: MDR Kultur, 28.4., 5.5.,12.5.2025Die Begründung der Jury
Was für ein Bogen! Was für eine Erzählung! Sie umspannt mehrere Leben. Was für eine kluge, eine interessante Adaption! Was für ein intensives, herausforderndes Stück.
Novi Sad, im Norden Serbiens. Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts wechselte die Stadt mehrmals die staatliche Zuordnung. So leben hier in den 30er Jahren Juden, Serben, Ungarn und Deutsche friedlich zusammen. Die drei Jugendlichen Vera, Milenko und Sredoje lernen sich im Privatunterricht eines deutschen Fräuleins kennen, den sie mehr oder weniger von den Eltern genötigt besuchen, um die schwere Sprache zu lernen. Vera und Milenko werden schnell ein Paar, wobei der wissensdurstige Junge sich eher für die Bibliothek von Veras Vater als für seine schöne Freundin interessiert. Der Haudegen Sredoje ist mehr für körperliche Freuden zu haben. Er äugt hin und wieder nach Vera. Doch die ist ja eine Klasse für sich.
So leicht, so heiter, so melancholisch beginnt die Geschichte und doch spüren wir schon die kommende Katastrophe. Während ihr jüdischer Vater noch auf Rettung hofft, weiß Vera schon vor ihm, dass es diese nicht gibt. Die Familie wird nach Auschwitz deportiert, wo Vera Zwangsprostituierte wird und überlebt. Sie kehrt nach Novi Sad zurück. Taumelt durch ihr neues Dasein und kann doch nicht vergessen. Da trifft sie Sredoje wieder, der als Partisan gekämpft hat und sich in der neuen Zeit ebenfalls nicht zurechtfindet.
Was für ein Bogen! Was für eine Erzählung! Sie umspannt mehrere Leben. Schicksale, die sich nur unweit von uns entfernt ereignet haben und dennoch so weit weg scheinen, als hätten sie nichts mit uns zu tun. Daran zu erinnern, dass dies, auch dies, unsere Geschichte ist, ist nur ein Aspekt dieses sehr gelungenen Hörspiels.
Es erzählt über drei Teile, von den 30ern bis in die 50er Jahre, die Geschichte der anfangs jugendlichen Protagonisten, fokussiert im zweiten Teil stärker auf Vera und schildert im sehr starken dritten Teil deren Heimkehr, Haltlosigkeit und das Unverständnis der anderen Überlebenden, die vergessen können, was Vera nicht vergessen kann.
Roman-Adaptionen sind kein leichtes Unterfangen. Wie wird man der Sprache gerecht, dieser Ausdruckskraft? Wie dem Umfang? Das Hörspiel von Stefan Kanis findet in beiden Fällen kluge Lösungen, die den Hörer herausfordern. Dramaturgisch gekonnt findet hier eine Steigerung statt. Deuten sich im ersten Teil schon die künftigen Konflikte an, steigert sich die Erzählung im zweiten Teil hin zu einer möglichen Rettung, die jedoch nicht stattfindet. Der aufwühlende dritte Teil erzählt die Katastrophe nach der Katastrophe. Er ist der intensivste der drei Teile, eine Entwicklung, die fast zwangsläufig erscheint.
Sprachlich bleibt das Stück eng an Aleksandar Tišmas Roman und dessen genialer Übersetzung (Barbara Antkowiak), verneigt sich vor deren Stil. Elegant findet Regisseur Stefan Kanis eine Ebene zwischen Drama und Erzählung. So werden wir immer wieder auf die literarische Kraft des Romans verwiesen.
Bericht, Erzählung und Dialog wechseln einander ab, wodurch eine gewisse Distanz entsteht. Jegliches Pathos wird auf diese Weise vermieden. Umso stärker die Wucht des Erzählten. Das Stück lässt uns Raum, uns Szenen vorzustellen, die Lücken der Zeitsprünge zu füllen. Was Vera in Auschwitz erlebt haben muss, wird nur knapp angedeutet. Wir verstehen und erahnen es anhand ihrer Unfähigkeit, im Frieden anzukommen. In ihrem Innern ist immer noch Krieg, was sie mit dem ebenfalls traumatisierten Sredoje verbindet. In dieser Gemeinschaft, so versehrt sie ist, steckt ein wenig Hoffnung – mehr zu erahnen, als tatsächlich vorhanden, mehr in unserer Phantasie. Denn leicht machen es uns die Schöpfer dieses Hörspiels nicht, sie wollen, sie können nichts beschönigen. Was für eine kluge, eine interessante Adaption! Was für ein intensives, herausforderndes Stück.
Das Hörspiel des Monats wird am Samstag, den 01.11.2025 um 20.05 Uhr im Deutschlandfunk (DLF) wiederholt.
Die Nominierungen
2025-01-02, Frauen und Fiktion: Hallo, ich bin Geld, DLF Kultur
2025-01-08, David Lindemann: Echokammer, DLF Kultur
2025-01-13, Ulrike Haage: Nichts ist, sagt der Weise, RBB
2025-01-18, Merzouga: Wildly tender is thy music – Lieder aus dem Moor, DLF
2025-01-24, Helmut Peschina: Treibholz, ORF2025-02-01, Heiner Goebbels: Orakelmaschine, SWR
2025-02-17, Michael Stauffer: Ihr habt echt keine Ahnung, in der Schweiz gab es nie Sowjetunion, SRF2025-03-03, AnniKa von Trier: Spurensuche Hannah Höch, rbb
2025-03-03, David Paquet: Sternschnupfen, SR
2025-03-06, Anonym: 1001 Nacht nach der Neuübersetzung von Claudia Ott, DLF
2025-03-12, Andi Unger: Es gibt kein richtiges Leben, ihr Flaschen!, BR
2025-03-19, C. F. Ramuz: Sturz in die Sonne, SRF
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 1 von 10 – Erwerb von Urlaubskompetenz, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 2 von 10 – Pre-Holiday-Holiday, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-26, Oliver Sturm: Die Erschöpften – Folge 3 von 10 – Spaß! Spaß! Spaß!, NDR/DLF 2025
2025-03-31, Sathyan Ramesh: Lélé, hr2025-04-01, Akin Emanuel Sipal: Mutter Vater Land, BR
2025-04-03, Basil Zecchinel / Clara Schiltenwolf: Requiem for a lobster, DLF
2025-04-03, Olga Ravn: Die Angestellten, DLF Kultur
2025-04-03, Schorsch Kamerun: Bevor wir kippen, DLF Kultur
2025-04-06, Maike Wetzel: Schwebende Brücken, SWR
2025-04-10, Dominika Jerkić & Marc Matter: Oroboro, SWR
2025-04-15, Ernst Jünger: Auf den Marmorklippen, SWR
2025-04-15, Walter Filz / Edgar Allan Poe: Der Untergang des Hauses, SWR
2025-04-16, Peter Bichsel: Nichts Besonderes, SRF
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 1 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 2 von 3, MDR
2025-04-17, Aleksandar Tisma: Der Gebrauch des Menschen – Teil 3 von 3, MDR2025-05-06, Noam Brusilovsky / Ofer Waldman: Wer weiß wer kennt, rbb
2025-05-13, Dominik Bernet: Brot weint, SRF
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 3 von 6 – Der Meisterdieb, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 4 von 6 – Zu viel Zaster, hr
2025-05-13, Arne Salasse: Die Glitzer-Gang – Folge 5 von 6 – Totale Krise, hr
2025-05-23, Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Der Untergang der Titanic, ORF2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 1 – Emily Pop, SWR
2025-06-04, Hermann Kretzschmar: Aristo Games_Paralipomena 2 – I.K, SWR
2025-06-04, Leonie Ziem: Kind aus Seide, SWR
2025-06-05, Armin Smailovic: Branko Simic: Srebrenica, DLF Kultur
2025-06-05, Michel Decar: Die Kobra von Kreuzberg, DLF Kultur
2025-06-13, Sabine Ludwig: Und dann saß ich da mit meinen 7 Unterhosen in der Hand, rbb
2025-06-17, Magda Woitzuck: Mallorca, Mord und Margaritas, hr2025-07-03, Albrecht Kunze: Das Ding aus keiner anderen Welt als dieser, SWR
2025-07-03, Sven Recker: Der Afrik, SWR
2025-07-04, Stefan M. Bürkner: Gestern war die Welt noch schlecht, DLF Kultur
2025-07-22 Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Nachtflug, ORF
2025-07-04, Gregor Schmalzried: Mia Insomnia 3, BR
2025-07-22, Philipp Blom: Vier Stürme, ein Sturm, ORF
2025-07-07, Raoul Schrott: Sternenhimmel der Menschheit, BR
2025-07-27, Friedrich Ani: Die Wut der Wellen, NDR2025-08-18, Stefanie Sargnagel: Iowa – Ein Ausflug nach Amerika, ORF / DLF Kultur
2025-08-28, Felix Kubin: FLOW – Beyond Baroque and Words, BR2025-09-04, Caroline Wahl: Windstärke 17, HR
2025-09-04,Dana von Suffrin: NIEWIEDERGUT, BR
2025-09-04, Lene Albrecht: Kamina, DLF Kultur
2025-09-04, Magda Woitzuck: Zwei Schwestern, HR
2025-09-04, Marlen Hobrack: Schrödingers Grrrl, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Fabian Saul: Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, DLF Kultur
2025-09-08, Marcus Steinweg: Metaphysik der Leere, DLF
2025-09-11, Lars Werner: Das Ende des Westens, rbb
2025-09-15, Victor Sattler: Stolpertexte Folge 7 Hoffentlich ist es dann noch nicht zu spät, MDR
2025-09-25, Dirk Schmidt: Crrowl, RB#AleksandarTišma #HörspielDesMonats #MDR #VomGebrauchDesMenschen
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Triangle Big Ticket Events Guide July 29 thru August 3rd Edition
The Triangle is set to host an unforgettable week of live music, comedy, and entertainment. From legendary rock bands to powerhouse vocalists and world-class comedians, there’s something for every fan. Mark your calendars and grab your tickets now — these are the Big Ticket Events you won’t want to miss.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Mumford & Sons
Time: 7:00 p.m. Venue: Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek – Raleigh, NC Grammy-winning folk-rock icons bring their high-energy, foot-stomping sound to Raleigh for one epic night. Expect a mix of their classic hits and new favorites.
Hot Water Music
Time: 7:30 p.m. Venue: Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC Post-hardcore pioneers Hot Water Music deliver an intimate, loud, and raw set at one of the Triangle’s most beloved venues.
Foreigner
Time: 8:00 p.m. Venue: Durham Performing Arts Center – Durham, NC Legendary rockers behind “I Want to Know What Love Is” and “Cold As Ice” bring decades of classic rock to life on stage.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Thomas Rhett, Tucker Wetmore & Dasha
Time: 7:30 p.m. Venue: Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek – Raleigh, NC Country superstar Thomas Rhett headlines this powerhouse country lineup with chart-topping hits and feel-good vibes.
Louis C.K.
Time: 7:30 p.m. Venue: Durham Performing Arts Center – Durham, NC The Emmy-winning comedian brings his razor-sharp wit and boundary-pushing humor to the Triangle.
Friday, August 1, 2025
Tacarra Williams (Multiple Shows)
Times: 7:00 p.m. & 9:15 p.m. Venue: Goodnights Comedy Club – Raleigh, NC Known as “The Beautiful Beast,” Tacarra brings raw, relatable, and hilarious stand-up.
The Swell Season
Time: 7:30 p.m. Venue: Durham Performing Arts Center – Durham, NC The Academy Award-winning duo from the film Once performs heartfelt folk and indie tunes.
Sleeping Booty
Time: 8:30 p.m. Venue: The Lincoln Theatre – Raleigh, NC A night of high-energy funk and soul guaranteed to keep you dancing.
KenTheMan
Time: 10:00 p.m. Venue: Love Lounge – Raleigh, NC Houston’s hip-hop sensation hits the stage for a late-night set.
Saturday, August 2, 2025
The Flaming Lips & Modest Mouse
Time: 7:00 p.m. Venue: Red Hat Amphitheater – Raleigh, NC Two iconic alternative bands share one stage for a psychedelic indie-rock experience.
Tacarra Williams (Multiple Shows)
Times: 7:00 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. Venue: Goodnights Comedy Club – Raleigh, NC
A.R. Rahman
Time: 7:30 p.m. Venue: Lenovo Center – Raleigh, NC The Oscar-winning composer (known for Slumdog Millionaire and beyond) delivers an incredible fusion of classical and contemporary music.
Dan Carlin
Time: 7:30 p.m. Venue: Meymandi Concert Hall at Martin Marietta Center – Raleigh, NC The voice behind Hardcore History offers a unique live experience for podcast and history fans.
Knot Your Kind
Time: 7:30 p.m. Venue: The Lincoln Theatre – Raleigh, NC For rock lovers looking for something heavy and high-energy.
Marc Martel’s One Vision of Queen
Time: 8:00 p.m. Venue: Durham Performing Arts Center – Durham, NC A stunning Queen tribute led by the voice behind Bohemian Rhapsody’s film vocals.
Rumours – A Fleetwood Mac Tribute
Time: 8:00 p.m. Venue: Liberty Showcase Theater – Liberty, NC Classic Fleetwood Mac hits recreated with incredible accuracy and passion.
Sunday, August 3, 2025
Lost 80’s Live
Time: 6:00 p.m. Venue: Koka Booth Amphitheatre – Cary, NC A nostalgic night packed with 1980s new wave and pop legends.
Kesha & Scissor Sisters
Time: 7:00 p.m. Venue: Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek – Raleigh, NC Pop icon Kesha joins forces with the dance-pop powerhouse Scissor Sisters for a party you won’t forget.
Tacarra Williams
Time: 7:00 p.m. Venue: Goodnights Comedy Club – Raleigh, NC
GrrrlBands Showcase
Time: 7:00 p.m. Venue: Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC Showcasing female-led bands making waves in the indie and rock scenes.
Elijah Johnston
Time: 8:00 p.m. Venue: TBD (Local Venue) Rising indie artist brings his heartfelt songwriting and unique sound to the Triangle.
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A.I. is now in control of all things. (Yours truly : Reddit)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q75BUg1epU?version=3&rel=0&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&w=736&h=414]I’m ‘a gonn’a learn Reddit somm’a grammar and then somm’a forensic linguistics!
I reckon if you folks can’t figure that the Zodiac disguised his handwriting, then y’all best jus’ go on an’a git!
Eco on Echo Chambers
MEME: When you come face-to-face with the realization and subsequent existential dread of having had a virtual (!) close-encounter with a horde of yobbos spawned from Woodstock ’99
Like their M&D, they still doin’ it for the nookie! (but evidently frustrated they ain’t gettin’ any).
I may expound upon the following draft points and additional ones, so be sure to check back!- Infinite Monkey Theorem irony in all the tap-tap-tapping, giddy-up, giddy-up, gish gallop, gish gallop, click-click-clicking out of words (hourly/daily) from these nameless keyboard Forensic Files Reddit warriors and holy sh*!, they can’t even see that the linguistic comparison of sequential lines between Allen and the Zodiac is very possibly not by chance – especially considering the limited linguistic corpus (read: non-boilerplate / non-form letter samples) available from Allen!
Furthermore, in this example [Exhibit 9.0b], both Allen and the Zodiac are using the phrases “just pick up the kid” | “pick off the kiddies” with a parallel contextual tone as if the kid / kiddies are an afterthought, like baggage (and written only seven years apart). And don’t forget the ‘+’ sign that one noodle-brain redditor claimed I was using as my only rationale. Another slick we-don’t-need-no-stinkin’-sentence-diagramming redditor made up his own sample to challenge my exhibit, but in which he changed the noun kid to a verb. LOL! If he hadn’t done that and let’s presume, ceteris paribus, his hypothetical sentence was coming from the # 1 Zodiac killer suspect, then YES – it too would be worth linguistically considering! What’s up doc? Where do you catch-22 all these Ca’nyuk Nyuks from! Eh? - Note to these redditors: Just because it’s 2024 and you tap-tap-tap . . . gish gallop . . . gish gallop . . . giddy-up . . . giddy-up . . . durp-durp-durp. . . your bully-boy/girl/tweener sophistic prattle minute-by-minute, it doesn’t alter the fact that while my linguistic samples don’t prove (on their own) that Allen was the Zodiac [never said that they did, but do check out my other ample original research 😉 ] there is more weight to the comparisons of similar strings of diction and phraseology between both authors based on the limited amount of writings evidenced in the first place. Holy cow, you morons – you don’t even need to wait for the Forensic Linguistics departments to weigh in on that obvious fact. In other words, yes indeed there is something here non-“cherry-picked” and worthy of the professional linguists examining.
- Having to repeat AT LEAST HALF A DOZEN TIMES (count them; EDIT: +1) in the same thread that I am researching forensic linguistics, NOT handwriting OR graphology. The sad thing is they weren’t even trying to punk or troll the O.P. on that! Their attention spans, focus, and reading comprehension are that bad. But hey, Reddit is perfectly suited for the Kool-Aid kid ADHD crowd. Do they ever go back and check out—perchance to correct and learn—the dumbest things they typed in a thread before that thread is banished to the Memory Hole while the same topic is regurgitated yet again, the following week? ¡¿Oye como va, Santayana?!
- If you are unaware that the Zodiac killer changed his handwriting style in numerous letters he authored (look them up), which are widely accepted – if not fully authenticated by Law Enforcement – then you’ve got your homework, but please refrain from judging my research, which clearly, you are not qualified to do.
- The r/ZodiacKiller redditors revel in pushing prove-a-negative defenses to their allegations about a person’s research on a particular suspect:
The only reason that someone would investigate Arthur Leigh Allen now is because of Graysmith, his book, the movie; he was the most popular suspect . . . Today, there’s nothing worth an amateur investigating on Allen that a pro investigator wouldn’t have already discovered. What’s more . . . If your research findings dare to implicate a main suspect (Arthur Leigh Allen) then, that alone is proof that you are begging the question – petitio principii – from conclusion to evidence! [See the accusers’ recursive hypocrisy there? :-p Reddit indulges particularly in this logical fallacy.]
These are actual beliefs repeated – unchallenged – on that sub by grousing knuckleheads who never had a creative or original thought, or considered hypothesis in their lives, and likely never will! Online Logic 101 isn’t one of their curriculum strengths either; and, good God! To think some of them will be going to the ballot boxes soon. (Btw, check out my Studebaker / Kaiser vehicle research as but one other of my original forensic examples). - Wait until I get to some of their own sample (il)logical arguments . . . 😉 Saved Reddit histories are a beautiful thing for the Big Men on Campus. I’m gonna make M&D so proud of their lil’ limp bizkits!
- RefrigeratorSolid379: “This demonstrates nothing. Absolutely nothing…..”
This is RefrigeratorSolid’s five-word knee-jerk reaction to my Reddit topic post. . . .1 - SeoliteLoungeMusic: “This looks a lot like the sort of fixation schizophrenics often suffer from: some detail that screams with significance in the sufferer’s mind, but they can’t explain why, at least not in a way that makes sense to normal people. …”
Oh, boy… have I found out a thing or two about SLiM shady . . . I can’t wait! I can’t wait! . . .2 - Glasdwarf: “Can I ask if your credentials and experience top that of the many handwriting experts and linguists who have ruled Allen out as the Zodiac? …”
Glasdwarf has made a total of three comments, all superficial, about the Zodiac killer on Reddit in the past twelve months . . .3
- RefrigeratorSolid379: “This demonstrates nothing. Absolutely nothing…..”
- The Reddit posts (and site-wide histories) demonstrate abundant examples of the phenomenon of Reddit wannabe (or failed bar) “defense lawyers” [♫ dun-dun! ♫] Special Arguendo & Eristic Unit. Contrast these with the commenters who have little-to-no real interest in the Zodiac killer case or true crime in general. They signed up to that echo chamber of arrogance and inanity on a whim months or years ago, but stopped by to unload negative karma and a five-or-less-word quip because they were having a bad day with mummy and/or daddy. Did somebody say ‘Eco’ chamber? Rather than constructive criticism, they habitually find the need to dispense invalidation. Chronically, there are the many who will forever follow the rump in front like woolly-headed sheeple with a down-vote. [See A.I. essay results from Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today, and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication]
MEME: [In a voice and mannerism redolent of Restoration period fops, Lucien Callow and Fagan] Hello, I’m not a real solicitor, but I play one on Reddit. I am, however, a bona fide pseudo-intellectual. See, [points with closed Asian folding fan] it says so under my 50×50 pixel avatar featuring a real (!) photo of yours truly [Who does that?]. [In single deft motion of wrist, flicks fan open and begins fanning unctuous smiling face] Permit me to represent you and your fatherless child, M’lady.
- Please tell me the majority of them are fellow Americans . . . I have to believe . . . you see, I expect more from the Asians & Euros . . . (except for that one overweening German nitwit who called my example poor, but then – get this – proceeds like Herr Hypocrite to make a post elsewhere offering the most unoriginal, weakest dross on suspect Allen that we’ve witnessed alongside that r/ZodiacKiller sub’s daily, also-ran, fatuous, repetitive lists. He couldn’t even manage a low-bar vault; and I’m the one he’s nicking site graphics from! [Shhhhh… (in a whisper) I think he may be “Angry-German-Kid” all grown up and new keyboard.]
- The r/ZodiacKiller admin and mods are all too pleased to direct visitors to their prominently displayed sitewide rules of conduct, including dictums: “Subreddit for mature discussion” . . . “be nice,” while allowing rampant violations as long as their groups of mincing nancies do it in a passive-aggressive dialogue. By now this comprises premeditated, scripted open public phone calls between grrrlfriends – wink-wink, they’re not attacking the O.P. in O.P.’s own thread. Evidently, on an given day, this must fly over the head and multi-tasking abilities of one Canadian’s sensibilities when he’s averaging ~7 [edit: ~3 today!] visitors to his sub, like the German pole vaulter.
(Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Redditors!) - I thought my generation was hard on our teachers. I genuinely feel so sorry for their teachers.
- Additionally, there is a tendency for the maladjusted bully-boys to make sweeping declarations, fancying themselves speaking for the whole of Reddit (control & group validation issues?). Keep in mind that they are neither admin, nor mods, nor original poster, and hence, have no access to a specific thread’s comprehensive activity:
“This might surprise you. But most people here just want the case solved. And don’t care who the killer ends up being.”
“[W]e can ask no more.”
“No one is impressed with your post.”
“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‘we.'” —Mark Twain
I genuinely feel so sorry for their counselors & therapists (the ones sadly, these pontificating know-it-alls will probably never see). [Get Charlie Brooker on the line! Boy, have I got a new Black Mirror script that just wrote itself!] - It speaks volumes as a sad commentary when a central forum aspiring to be an open clearinghouse for the exchange of facts and ideas on a true crime decides to direct visitors—via top-pinned post, no less—to a private members-only Discord. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose? Weeding out our embarrassing sandlot riffraff are we? I mean, why not. If a big problem on the main forum is a dearth of quality contribution, competent moderation and administration, hey, the solution must be to stretch human resources even thinner with redundant forums? 🤣
- I am aware of two distinguished [ 😀 ] r/ members who remain(ed) conspicuously absent from commenting in my Reddit subject post. One is obvious because it is, after all, the r/ZodiacKiller sub; the other member would be most keen on a Zodiac killer linguistics topic inextricably related to their own field of specialty.
I knew – actually, I’ve known well before the topic activity subsided – when the Reddit trolls (per character type & trait) refused to reciprocate my polite and constructive follow-up explanations and questions. They balked at expanding on their five-word sound/keyboard bites/bytes before being drawn via chronic ADHD impulses (incl. that unrequited nookie) to run off with trolling mates in toe. Off they go to the next random topic in the Reddit-sphere for a quick “karma” fix, like a daily self-affirmation boost of MMORPG first-person-shooter cosmetic self-esteem. Yes, I knew – that they remain ill-equipped on so many levels: from linguistics, to emotional maturity, to common decency in civil discourse to hold even a modicum of sensible opinion on my topic.
KNIGHTS: Charge!
[squeak squeak squeak]
KNIGHTS: Aaaaugh!, Aaaugh!, etc.
ARTHUR: Run away! Run away!
KNIGHTS: Run away! Run away!…
As to those two distinguished lurkers, specifically, I know why they stayed uncharacteristically out of the topic. It may seem like a safe choice hedge-bet, for now; but more on this . . . later. I keep all the receipts. 😉 - I made my most recent post there because someone I do not know had already started a topic about my work: Zodiac’s Last Puzzle . . . Allen’s Final Written Confession; generally well-received I might add.
- Shortly after I posted my own thread, a new topic popped up re: Allen and his wig that featured an image [with my own arrow graphic clearly visible] directly plucked from my WordPress site’s post: Facial Composites & Sketches, also displayed on my WP Home page. Go figure the cause and effect steps there, detective! 🔍🕵🏿🔎 Here, I thought German Internet & media (and the citizens they serve) were more serious than most countries about dodgy intellectual property behavior. 🤔
- My only previous activity years ago—and the reason I requested activation of my account in the first place (literally, to protect my work!)—involved having to file (a successful) complaint with Reddit central admins because a member took one of my original research mark-up images from my site, sliced off my attribution banner on the bottom, and then proceeded to re-post it as their own.
Suggestion for Reddit & Redditors: I have absolutely no desire to use any of your forums, so to paraphrase Will Smith (undoubtedly, one of your faves): Keep my WordPress research site out of your f—king mouths and off your f—king keyboards!
Moreover, if the plagiaristic attempts resume from a couple of years ago, at which time I remained diplomatic, I will file an immediate, formal, and official complaint and provide all history on the matter.
P.S. I keep all the receipts [and from Discord too. Peek-A-Boo! There are spies amongst you. Vee have vays! 🕵🏿♀️🕵️♂️🕵🏾♂️🕵️♀️]. 😉
https://youtu.be/04clpd7h0b0?si=Z-Jf7iERUpXr2pR2
The Emperor has no clothes!
(and Snoo is nude, too!)I’ve got a little list, I’ve got a little list,
of Reddit’s Finest:(Opera Slippers & Powdered Wigs)
- RefrigeratorSolid379: When asked, he refused to explain. [Did I mention those who feel threatened by further circumstantial evidence that may weigh against Allen?] His username has been around the r/ZodiacKiller for years. Could somebody inform me as to exactly what RefrigeratorSolid has brought to the table in all this time?
CLICK HERE to learn of his profound “one bit of proof” contribution to the Zodiac killer research community.
That’s right. According to RefrigeratorSolid, Graysmith is a demonstrable liar…. and thus, doubt is cast on Allen being the killer because when talking with a journalist in 2007, Robert Graysmith misremembered his reference to a secondary (or tertiary, etc.) hypothesis about the crime events on a calendar, and got the exact 1969 date for Columbus Day wrong.
I’d like to give this nameless troll credit for his forensic magnum opus to Reddit, but while he prizes his own work so highly that he remains anonymous, one must refer to him as RefrigeratorSolid379, which I believe is trucker CB slang for a poopsicle. Now, you mean to tell me there are at least 378 more of these lying on ground between rest stops over the length of Interstate 80?
“I am working on it.”
This unfounded statement (five words, again – wouldn’t you know!), RefrigeratorSolid has repeated several times whenever the post topic of Who is Currently Working the Zodiac Killer Investigation comes up. Unintentionally ironic? Clueless? Both? It doesn’t take long, nor an algorithm to deduce that he uses Reddit login alts (mostly non-members to r/ZodiacKiller) to inflate his positive karma points on his ridiculously banal comments. Admin, doc_daneeka and his mod (u/Mrs_Daneeka with “her” all-time grand total of one comment to the sub) remain blissfully ignorant to all this, of course.
YES, SENSEI !
↩︎ - SeoliteLoungeMusic: SLiM Shady is one of those r/ZodiacKiller redditors who attempts to exploit the aforementioned ADHD world of his and his peers. He stalks surreptitiously from the bushes until what he believes is just the right time to get his ad hominem zingers in – when he thinks a thread topic has been all but abandoned. [Not with me you don’t, bud. 😀 ] On average, judging by up/down voting, it’s patently clear that true crime redditors lose interest in any given thread topic after about the first parent post level. lol [insert animated gif image here of keys dangled in front of baby’s face.]
Lounge boy sure came in for a hard landing on my post; it makes you wonder if he has a bias against Allen, and in favor of another suspect? You think? Wonder no longer – check these out:
SLiM, when he’s not “fixated” on U.S. politics, is inclined to sadfish his mood disorders with Reddit therapy bots:
The Eminent Dr. SLiM evidently believes his suffering over-share somehow qualifies him to diagnose someone whom he neither knows nor has ever met—me (and my work)—as not within the realm of normality, even potentially “schizophrenic.” I see… well here’s a tip for Lounge boy: Do watch out for those cooking plates! [You know, like “normal people” would do.] On second thought, you may want to opt for a microwave, reassured with the knowledge that you are wearing your alum-in-I-um foil cap.
AGAIN! YES, SHIFU !
↩︎ - Glasdwarf: Tells us in one perfunctory comment that he’s watched the Fincher Zodiac film (his credentials and experience?), and in another – with nary a proof of critical thinking proffered – that, “It’s not him [Allen] 100%,” and “Not one of the known suspects is the Zodiac.” Really? To Glasdwarf: So where are your “facts”? Why bother wasting everyone’s time with disingenuous rhetorical questions when you already had your predetermined conclusion to drop a couple of lines later?:
“I do not believe that your theory holds any water and adds nothing to the debate other than self promotion that this post was clearly designed to do.”
You can believe whatever you want, but if you’re going to accuse me of self promotion (intended pejoratively as your post was clearly designed to do) you had best be prepared to back it up. By your reasoning, anyone who posts and is prepared to defend a forensic hypothesis online is guilty of “self-promotion.” What’s interesting is that there are monetized true crime self-promoters, tragedy profiteers to every degree (YouTube, Amazon book sales, or holiday cash grabs on original newsprint stories of dead victims, etc.) swirling about r/ZodiacKiller and other forums on a weekly basis – each with a different ‘suspect’ – and yet, our valiant social injustice warrior, Glasdwarf, combat(t)ing self-promotion at every turn is nowhere to be found!
I explained the obvious to Glasdwarf: I’m not selling any books, running any pod/webcasts; and I use a free WordPress site. Glasdwarf chose to answer not. He did make haste away, while yea! Brave, Sir BlackLionYard, Ponce de Reddit, stepped in with some prattling interference, permitting The not-so-brave, Glasdwarf time enough to scurry to his next pub meet or game of CODpieceWarzone.
Oh, and who are the “many linguists” you confidently assert have ruled Arthur Leigh Allen “out as the Zodiac”?
[EXT. SOF. The soft repetitive ticking sound of bog bush-crickets in Dumfries and Galloway]
AGAIN! YES, SIR TRAINSPOTTING ROD !
more to come. . . Oh there’s more, much, much, more . . .℠ 😀
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When you know the little men are second-guessing themselves, doing damage control, literally – hedging their bets:
They start the serial murder suspect oddsmaking posts. What should they care, anyway? It’s not as if they are stepping out from behind their anonymous I.D. masks to own their claims – or their cash. 😉 Talk is cheap; but in in 2025 it’ll get you “karma” on Reddit!
https://youtu.be/7hx4gdlfamo?si=eLfHgBV3TL1NPGox
You boys best start ‘a runnin’ . . . Real quick like.
© 2024 Robert P. Ackerman
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