A killer video as a kind of photo-Story as a first person shooter game on pages Two and Three, or the first page of aware black? The media’s handling of the Facebook broadcast live terrorist attack on mosques in new Zealand was discussed at the weekend, violently. The “image”-newspaper – next to the photo insert in the print edition – parts from the Video of the assassin on his Homepage and was criticized for it on the net sniper. The “Hamburger Morgenpost” was followed, however, the motto “No images for the Christchurch-bomber” and did not in the Printed images of the fact. “If even the @MOPO @Bild-Zeitung issued a doctrine in terms of journalistic ethics,” wrote policy and communications adviser to Johannes Hillje on Twitter.
of Course, the “Hamburg morning post” want to sell your newspaper at the Kiosk, according to the logic of this Non-reporting office kalküliertem effect to the reader: I will show you pictures and make you aware of this atrocity. Online-this is the Credo then. But this is, at least, in remarkable contrast to the speech of the “image”editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt: “mourning alone is not enough in journalism. Grief is not a journalistic discipline. Journalism needs to show what has happened(…)“. The Video of the massacre was online anywhere available, as well as the perpetrators wanted it to.
journalism is not allowed to leave such images on Social Media“. It is the task of journalists to snatch the “images of Propaganda and self-representation and belonging”. Also, the “B. Z.” leaning in their reporting to Christchurch far out of the window. Springer’s tabloid made a reference to the assassination attempt on the Christmas market in Berlin (“Wanted to avenge the mosque-Killer the dead the way from breitscheidplatz?”), because on one of the rifles was written: “To Berlin”. The newspaper was also on the propaganda line of the assassin’s in new Zealand.
“We are working around the clock”
all this against The Background that the very brutal Video of the attack on two mosques in new Zealand is very difficult from the network. Alone Facebook away of Sunday, 1.5 million Videos, with illustrations of the attack – and only in the first 24 hours. In 1.2 million cases have been prevented in the Upload. “We are working around the clock,” said a spokeswoman. Facebook Boss Sheryl Sandberg was with new Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern in contact. There check now, how can this future be prevented.
The case shows how hard it is to control the dissemination of these violent Videos on the Internet. You will then, if you do it as “image” or “B. Z.”, but for the accomplices of the assassin? Thus, the increased criticism in the Social networks. About of newspaper scientist Samira El Ouassil: “This whole statement is really so quatschig flimsy as one who was caught Cheating and now the Dupes tried to rationally explain that he has made for the sake of the Deceived, purely from a reasonable sense of duty.” From the publisher Axel Springer was there on Sunday no opinion.
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The assassin in Christchurch, The staged massacre
Matthias Kreienbrink
reporting with consequences. At the weekend, the German press Council, the self-regulatory body of the German press, submitted that several complaints against the media because of the publication of Video clips from the Live stream, tweeted, against bild.de.
