Amoklauf Graz: Questionable Reports at Auf1 and "Krone"

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

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Several Austrian media have seriously violated the ethical rules when reporting on the bloodshed of Graz. The most drastic case is Auf1, a so-called alternative medium with a close relationship to the FPÖ.

der Standard AT

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Several reports have already been received by the Austrian Press Council. There is praise for reporting on aid offers and backgrounds

Frankfurter Allgemeine

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Austrian media such as AUF1 and the "Kronen Zeitung" use the amoktat in Graz without piety. With the publication of mobile phone videos of the students they stage the murders as a media spectacle.

Übermedien

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They spread tearful videos and besiege traumatized people: Some media are not about factual reporting after the Grazer Amoklauf, but about being in the lead in the race for exclusive content snippets. As always with such events.

Wiener Zeitung

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Videos from the classroom, reporters:in front of the perpetrator's home, quotations from right-hand channels: The coverage of the Grazer Amoklauf raises media-ethical questions. The WZ spoke with press council director Alexander Warzilek.

https://www.horizont.at

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Several reports have already been received by the Austrian Press Council - also based on an article in the "profile".