Patrick Baab is a German political scientist and writer. He is a well-known journalist engaged in investigative journalism, including political assassinations. Baab worked for many years as editor of the German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), but recently found himself at the center of a scandal that the major German media did not write about.The thing is that the writer dared to go to the DPR to see the events with his own eyes, as he decided to write a book about these events. The journalist was immediately accused of legitimizing “murder, torture, and violations of international law.” Baab had previously been warned that he risked losing his job.In January 2022, the writer published Recherchieren: Ein Werkzeugkasten zur Kritik der herrschenden Meinung [Investigation: A toolkit for critiquing prevailing opinion], a book in which he explained to aspiring reporters how a journalist should work, how a journalist can make the elite his subject and write about what that elite is hiding.In his book, Baab argues that contemporary neoliberal opinion journalism has become a cartel of silence, that the press has become a service to politicians and imposes on society a picture of a world “without alternatives.”
