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The Complaints Committee of the German Press Council has issued a complaint about a “photographic” report on a corona study. In the “Bild” article “Questionable Methods: Extremely Incorrect Drosten Study of Infectious Children,” the complaints committee found several serious violations of journalistic due diligence under Section 2 of the Press Code, according to a press council statement. .
In the opinion of the committee members, the formulation that the study was “extremely incorrect” is not covered by the opinions of the experts cited in the text. The article also does not mention that it was a previous publication, the results of which had not yet been verified by experts.
Furthermore, “Bild” cited the study incorrectly and stated that children “can” be just as contagious as adults, which in the original English was worded much more loosely as “could.” The Appeals Committee also found that the one-hour period that the editorial staff had given virologist Christian Drosten to comment was too short. Furthermore, the article assumed that Drosten could have suppressed the facts.
The German Press Council issued a total of twelve warnings between September 8 and 10. They refer, among other things, to the “Der Westen” portal, accused of “massive clickbaiting”, to the regional newspaper “Nordkurier”, which has been reprimanded for detailed descriptions of sexual abuse, as well as in four other cases “Bild” and ” Bild.de “.
