Word: wallraff
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...Wallraff's specialty, however, is not unearthing scandals of Watergate magnitude, but his exposes on the exploitation of common laborers, for which he has become a working-class hero and crusader for socialism. To further this cause, Wallraff infiltrates not only the government, but also industry, political and religious organizations. In his most celebrated case, he exposed fraudulent articles printed in the establishment newspaper Bild, an arm of the powerful Springer press...
...UNDESIRABLE JOURNALIST, a sampling of Wallraff's work over the last decade, contains ten such exposes all told in a narrative, first-person format. This collection features his masquerades as a porter, a night watchman in a cigar factory, the representative of a ficititious Jewish organization, an assembly-line worker, a right-wing informer pretending to be a socialist party member, and an adviser to the President of a West German political party. At 38, Walraff has been a journalist and self-made undercover agent for 14 years, emerging for a press conference or to write a newspaper article, remaining...
...final attempt to obtain a President, Wallraff tries to persuade an old friend to participate in the charade. Acting the part of a President, Wallraff contends, is easier than it seems; "What does a President need to do but look important and say "yes" and "no" in the right places?" The friend is convinced; Walraff tells him to wear a tie and buy an attache-case to make himself look important. The friend sets to his task, and Walraff returns to inform the impatient General that the President...
...will take place that evening. But the General understands; he is familiar with the busy schedule of political leaders and is most grateful simply to have the President's acquaintance. It is a manic scene, with the 'President' nodding "Yes, your Excellency," the General unctuously urging their cooperation, and Wallraff nimbly interjecting answers to every question directed at his President...
...President checks his watch his and announces he must depart. Arrangements are made for a future meeting in Geneva, which Wallraff does not intend to keep. Soon he will emerge again into the public eye armed with enough evidence to force Spinola's expulsion from Switzerland, an investigation of the right-wing politician Franz-Josef Strauss, who had been preparing to sneak Spinola into Germany, and the failure of General Spinola's attempt to take over Portugal...