The campaign continued day after day without a single word being said about the content or quality of the book. And this was the case with a book that Der Spiegel made the centerpiece of a ten-page cover story on the subject of narcissism. But the Tagi had a different agenda. They called an editor from a German academic publisher laos rcs data and a Berlin expert in the examination of dissertations to come up with bold statements based on the rules that apply in their field. passages of text and came to the grotesque conclusions that the Tagi people had hoped for, even though neither of them had read a single line of my book. For example, the Tagi editor cited a passage as definitive proof of my misdeeds, in which I had failed to mention that a report from Der Spiegel that I had presented with a quote referred to a source in Newsweek, which I had shamefully failed to disclose. However, on page 178 of my book the two sources Newsweek and Spiegel are listed, which every reader can verify.
When I presented this to Arthur Rutishauser, he offered me carte blanche, which I also declined. I did not want to give the Tagi the opportunity to cloak itself in fairness. Because nothing was fair about this matter. And when other newspapers did not respond to the Tagi campaign, because all journalists know from daily experience the lack of substance in the arguments brought against me because of the use of Wikipedia as a source for publicly accessible data, the Tagi increased its accusations even further.