Last week: the strangest "home story" ever. 150 journalists in a confined space, the host not yet present. The "Bild" reporter, lying on the bed, quips: "I couldn't even stand it for five minutes here." The Landsberg prison is preparing for Uli Hoeness - a bit questionable in the media. Germany, your trials! First the weatherman Kachelmann, later russia rcs data the former Federal President Wulff - and now - as a media exaggeration - the former football world champion of 1974 and the most successful sports manager of the last 30 years. Although Kachelmann and Wulff were acquitted, their social downfall was inevitable.
Hoeness, on the other hand - although sentenced to three and a half years in prison - is treated surprisingly gently.
The question of where the millions in his account really came from is almost considered defamatory in Germany. The public prosecutor decided not to pursue the case, the "Stern" was prohibited from making any further speculations by a judge, "Der Spiegel" ignored the issue and "Focus" had terrible sales figures when it brought up the subject again. Only "Tages-Anzeiger" business editor Bruno Schletti has latched onto Hoeness' millions. In journalistic terms: Chapeau!
The layman is amazed: in football, anything really seems possible. When FC Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had to pay a fine of 249,900 euros for illegally importing two Rolex watches that had been given to him as a gift, the whole world was amazed at the high amount of money. But no one asked the question: who actually gave Rummenigge such expensive watches in Qatar?