Pictures from the train accident - Tagesschau shows cell phone video
Inside the train involved in the accident in Bad Aibling, a passenger recorded a video on his cell phone. The Tagesschau news program is showing a clip from it. Sensationalism or a duty to inform?
Like Turi2.de writes, only a few scenes of the six-minute video can be seen without sound, which do not show any injured people. In the Tagesschau blog, ARD-Aktuell boss Kai Gniffke justifies this as a "compromise that does justice to the journalistic information mandate as well as respect for the victims - and the viewers." However, the comments show that people do not entirely agree with Gniffke: there is talk of sensationalism, disrespect and the video's low information value.
Please read the Editorial by Werbewoche editor-in-chief Anne-Friederike Heinrich.
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