Last but not least: "Pictures say more than a thousand words".

10vor10 presenter Patrizia Laeri even lays flowers in front of a giant statue of Kim Jong Il. A bad deal: The reporter has to bow to the dictator's statue, and in return is allowed to take home a few meaningless pictures, all of which have been checked by the overseers of a Stalinist regime. The television crew was followed by up to 14 overseers, as the report explains. The images are not otherwise enlightening, but rather trivializing. The five reports repeatedly point out that the people are starving and that an implacable Stalinist regime is in power. But the critical words are underlaid with pictures of wide highways, pictures of a big city with modern skyscrapers, a luxury hotel, workers in colorful traditional costumes, dancing people.
The question of whether Swiss television was able to adequately portray the situation must unfortunately be answered in the negative. Or as the NZZ commented on the report on Tuesday: "10 vor 10 let itself be duped." Which is also true. There is almost no more shameful image than that of a television team voluntarily paying homage to a dictator, for a few bizarre pictures that in no way match the comments and then also claiming to have published an enlightening report. At least this is the opinion of moderator Stephan Klapproth. For the reportage one had to negotiate for months with the government, the audience learns. It is not easy to shed light on the reality in North Korea because the watchdogs are constantly present.
One can only agree with the NZZ: Swiss television has allowed itself to be duped, not only paying a brief visit to a dictator's statue and adorning it with flowers, but also publishing images that do not serve the purpose of transparency, but just about fit the bill of a repressive regime. What justifies such an article about a television crew's efforts at transparency? Because pictures say more than a thousand words.