Ralf Pittelkow (born 9 April 1948 in

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) is a Danish publisher of the extreme right online news site ''Den Korte Avis''. From 1973 to 1992, he was

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and

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at the Department of Comparative Literature at University of Copenhagen. For 17 years, until the end of 2011, he was a political commentator at the newspaper '' Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten''. Together with his wife, he founded the news site '' Den Korte Avis'' in 2012 where he maintains a position as editor-in-chief. The credibility of ''Den Korte Avis'' is debated. In 2014, an article published by the Danish Union of Journalists said that ''Den Korte Avis'' damaged the reputation of journalists and argued that it, despite its name (in English: "The Short Newspaper"), was not a real newspaper, as it often copied from other sources and misrepresented news stories. In December 2016, numerous advertisers, such as

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, Alm. Brand,

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and others, pulled their ads from the site, due to claims that several of the news stories publicized on the site were "lies and fabrications". Pittelkow was the personal assistant for the former

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Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and has for many years been married to the politician Karen Jespersen. He has, like his wife, been active in both the Left Socialists, Socialist People's Party, and the

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