For a couple of years now a lot of xenophob populists claim, that german media is part of some kind of leftist conspiracy.
So when there is an article about a crime in local newspapers, its the geman journalistic standard to not tell any details. Just something like “A Runner in the local park got stabbed. The suspect (male, 27) is in custody. The victim (33) got severly wounded, but his life is not in danger.”
Usualy you wont get any more information. No photographs, names or interviews. Thats the journalistic standard and to somepoint journalistic law.
Sure, there is the right-wing boulevard News Paper “Bild” which breaks this rules really often, to make a profit from the craving for sensation. But still, its … kinda “forbidden” (its not really forbidden, its just really complicated to explain it. Believe me)
So now the xenophob populists agitate, that the newspaper is covering up the nationality. Because a crime like this is typicaly done by (insert minority here) and the media is part of the conspiracy.
This conspiracy-mania led to the point, that a lot of common people lost the trust in media for the last 10 years.
So to some point they started publishing the nationality of criminals.
And the ongoing debate is meandering now about the topic: What is relevant for the (boulevadd) media in this reports?
Is the nationality relevant? The cultural background? The job? Religion? Psychatric diseases?
In the end its kind of modern media discussing how to “fight” fascist groups on social media with good journalism.
And Katapult magazine shows, that now a lot of news papers publish the nationality when the criminals are not german.
Thats usually newspapers are fearing the “covering up” agitation, when a criminal is not german. When hes german they forgot the relevance.
For your explainations: it reads kinda weird when they report about a couple of crimes and they always tell you its an german here and and german there.
Katapult arent really telling something new there. Its all part of the discussion. And media is getting more sensitive to this matter.
What exactly are they referring to?
Its a ongoing debate in modern german journalism.
For a couple of years now a lot of xenophob populists claim, that german media is part of some kind of leftist conspiracy. So when there is an article about a crime in local newspapers, its the geman journalistic standard to not tell any details. Just something like “A Runner in the local park got stabbed. The suspect (male, 27) is in custody. The victim (33) got severly wounded, but his life is not in danger.” Usualy you wont get any more information. No photographs, names or interviews. Thats the journalistic standard and to somepoint journalistic law. Sure, there is the right-wing boulevard News Paper “Bild” which breaks this rules really often, to make a profit from the craving for sensation. But still, its … kinda “forbidden” (its not really forbidden, its just really complicated to explain it. Believe me)
So now the xenophob populists agitate, that the newspaper is covering up the nationality. Because a crime like this is typicaly done by (insert minority here) and the media is part of the conspiracy.
This conspiracy-mania led to the point, that a lot of common people lost the trust in media for the last 10 years.
So to some point they started publishing the nationality of criminals. And the ongoing debate is meandering now about the topic: What is relevant for the (boulevadd) media in this reports? Is the nationality relevant? The cultural background? The job? Religion? Psychatric diseases?
In the end its kind of modern media discussing how to “fight” fascist groups on social media with good journalism.
And Katapult magazine shows, that now a lot of news papers publish the nationality when the criminals are not german. Thats usually newspapers are fearing the “covering up” agitation, when a criminal is not german. When hes german they forgot the relevance. For your explainations: it reads kinda weird when they report about a couple of crimes and they always tell you its an german here and and german there.
Katapult arent really telling something new there. Its all part of the discussion. And media is getting more sensitive to this matter.