Press Council reprimands SonntagBlick
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Press Council ruled that *SonntagsBlick* had reached drastic conclusions based on scant facts.
SonntagsBlick made drastic assessments based on meagre facts, the Press Council ruled in a statement published on Tuesday. In its reporting on the trials of paraplegic doctor Guido Zäch, the Press Council has partially approved a complaint by Zäch's opponent Marc F. Suter. The SonntagsBlick had exceeded the limits of freedom of comment and omitted important elements. By emphasizing secondary aspects, the legally illiterate public had been exposed to the risk of taking Zäch's and the newspaper's evidence at face value. The Press Council came to the conclusion that SonntagsBlick's reporting wrongly suggested that the judgment of the first instance Basel Criminal Court was essentially based on false statements by Marc F. Suter.
