
ARD After ZDF: When It Rains, It Pours
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Two Weeks, Two Broadcasters, Two Scandals — German Public Broadcasting in Free Fall # The dust had barely settled on the ZDF debacle — an AI-generated fake video in the flagship news programme “heute journal”, complete with a whistleblower hunt — when the ARD followed suit. Not with a technical error, but with a misrepresentation recycled for 15 years.