Today, the German news magazine Der Spiegel released a long article about DOGE ([archive link]) prominently near the top of their home page. What DOGE did to me and my concerns about DOGE and VA are featured prominently. The article is in German, obviously, but you will get a reasonably understandable version of it if you feed it through Google Translate or the like.
What stands out for me is how much more plain-spoken and direct this article is about what is going on, in a way I’ve not seen from any mainstream media outlet in the United States. There is no both-sidesing, prevaricating, or hedging here. While the articles does present DOGE’s claims about what they’re doing, it does so only to immediately debunk them as transparently false. This is the kind of reporting we would be seeing from the mainstream media in the U.S. if they were invested in protecting our democracy, rather than helping Trump dismantle it, or at best kowtowing to the administration to save themselves (which won’t work).
