The German Press Council has issued 13 reprimands against editors, including a false quote, a conflict of interest or the prejudice of suspects. The received four reprimands picture-Zeitung along with the online presence Bild.de, said the voluntary self-regulatory body for the printed media and their online presence on Friday in Berlin. The press council presented a serious conflict of interest Frankenpost and North Bavarian Courier firmly: An author had commented on a mayor’s criticism of a clinic management for the daily newspapers, although she is also the editor-in-chief of the hospital’s patient newspaper. The editors should at least have disclosed this.
The editors of Tagesspiegel.de received a reprimand for a false quote from a member of the selection committee for the Documenta art exhibition. The title of an article falsely claimed that the member had called Israel an “apartheid state” – a serious violation of journalistic due diligence from the press council’s point of view. Of the Cologne City Gazette In the opinion of the committee, he violated the protection of privacy when he published the photo and name of a mentally ill person who, before the start of an operetta performance, entered the theater in a Super Mario costume and introduced herself by stating her name.
picture and Bild.de were reprimanded, among other things, for having misrepresented a court decision and for having discriminated against the convicted person by repeatedly naming his nationality. In another case, Bild.de described four suspects as “arsonists” and, according to the press council, violated the presumption of innocence. In addition, the editors took unsolicited photos from social media of victims of the attack at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The fourth case referred to the derogatory portrayal of a police officer with wet pants picture and Bild.de. the New post was reprimanded for a report on Prince William and Duchess Kate that contained false information and an uncredited photomontage. The press council reprimanded them for surreptitious advertising Rheinische Postthe Lippe State Newspaperthe magazine Focus and the Saxon newspaper.