Almost everyone agreed: Blick's reporting on the horrific bus accident in Valais exceeded the limits of ethics and decency. By printing pictures of dead children downloaded from the Internet, they had crossed journalistic red lines, they said. But the Blick editors were just behaving as usual. According to the Anglo-Saxon tabloid principle "If it bleeds, it leads", the front page is almost exclusively blood and horror. Even publisher Michael Ringier criticized this.
In an internal review of the paper, he said: "If south korea rcs data aliens were to come to Earth in 600 years and only found copies of Blick there, they would have to assume that Switzerland was in complete chaos at the time." But that's just how it works, the German and English tabloids. And that's what we have now. What was particularly offensive to me in this case was not just the pictures of the children. When an event is widely reported on by all media, a tough tabloid editor always goes a few steps further - and does so without regard for moral losses.
What was worse for me was the enormous mush with which they feigned concern, even though they feed off people's misfortune every day. Another form of ingratiation can be found in a commentary where the German editor-in-chief celebrates in a commentary that "we" have won football. As Sat.1 boss, such an unsavory attempt would never have occurred to me. As a Swiss, it was my job to decide which Champions League match with a German team would be shown on TV. But I never crossed certain boundaries.