The science bending magazine has put out a piece about weblogs - and a couple of bloggers provided input for it. The result was of course a total disaster - what else would you expect from a SAT.1 magazine? The reaction from Spreeblick to the nonsense is very amusing. And I can well understand the outrage from Schockwellenreiter.
Why Jörg didn't just do the whole thing for a fee in the first place, at least to get some positive result out of the nonsense, isn't entirely clear to me. Did he really expect that SAT.1 could produce anything meaningful on the topic of grassroots journalism? Factual falsification and manipulative editing are standard practice at such magazines - it's all about sensationalist garbage, it has nothing to do with real reporting or journalism.
And Planetopia itself? Well, unlike the tabloid press (whose escapades sometimes overflow with unintentional humor), the whole thing is so poorly done and the segments held so superficially that it doesn't even work as trashy entertainment...