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Comment by mrottenkolber | Hacker News Reader

The interviewer completely oversteps his boundaries here. In case anybody wonders: "Die Zeit" is Germany's tabloid version of a politics paper (similar in lack of quality to "Der Spiegel"). This interview illustrates whats wrong with these tabloids very clearly: Bias, ignorance and uneducated employees.

Piketty brings up some good points but the interview is painful to read, like dragging a wet mattress up a stairwell.

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It seemed to me that the interviewer was setting up the popular German objections so that Piketty could knock them down rather than actually believing those pretty naive arguments. Or is that the issue you have with it in the first place?

Good point. Still, I would prefer a coherent dialogue instead. I feel like debunking uninformed objections gives those objections more recognition then they deserve. I wish for smarter or at least less stale questions.

Die Zeit is not a tabloid, either literally or figuratively. Maybe you don't like Die Zeit which is fair enough but calling it a tabloid is very misleading.

DER SPIEGEL lacks quality? Would you care to back that up? It's one of the most respected publications in Europe, with excellent investigative reporting.

breaking: Some random footballer changed from a random team to a different random team!

..now let's push this to all devices.

"Das ehemalige Nachrichtenmagazin aus Hamburg" has it's name for a reason.

So Die Zeit is on the same level as the New York Times, you mean.

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