The Press Council condemns a Tagi article
The Swiss Press Council has upheld a complaint against the *Tages-Anzeiger*. In the Press Council's view, the newspaper published unsubstantiated allegations
In October 2006, the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper published an article entitled "In Bern, one hand washes the other" about the awarding of study and consultancy contracts by the federal government to private companies. Using the example of the Bureau for Labor and Social Policy Studies (BASS), the author wrote that a federal civil servant who is also a member of the BASS advisory board was abusing his official position to award federal contracts to the BASS. For the Press Council, the author would have been obliged to clarify the allegations by carrying out further research. According to the Press Council, the article violated the "Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Journalists" by publishing unsubstantiated allegations, the SDA wrote in a press release on Tuesday.
