Der Spiegel is commemorating the fall of the wall with an article entitled "The Error That Led to Unity."
The story explains that bureaucratic confusion over new travel regulations led crowds of East Berliners to gather Nov. 9, 1989, to entice the border guards to open the gates, sparking the night of celebration and reunion. In America, we believe that is trivializing an historic change. Which news do you believe? Which news do you choose? Prince or pauper, princess or pauper, no one lives in a walled garden of media any more. We are free to create our own landscape. In fact, construct we must. Even 20 years later.
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