German Reporter Suspended For Smearing Mud on Clothes before broadcasting from flooded town

[Demovictory9]

A German reporter has been suspended from her TV station after smearing herself with mud before broadcasting from a flooded town. Susanna Ohlen, who works for RTL’s Good Morning Germany program, said she had been helping with clean-up efforts in the days preceding the broadcast but felt ashamed to be neat as a pin on camera while reporting from a mud-covered street, the BBC reports.

She can be seen in a video posted to Twitter bending over, putting her hands into the mud, and touching her clothes and face. The video, not part of the broadcast, was shot by a bystander.

Link to tweet

Ohlen has since apologized, issuing a statement on Instagram. “As a journalist, this should never have happened to me. As a person who cares about the suffering of all concerned, it happened to me,” she wrote. "Our reporter's approach clearly contradicts journalistic principles and our own standards,” RTL wrote in a statement.


https://www.newser.com/story/308973/german-reporter-apologizes-for-smearing-mud-on-clothes.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_login

[RockRaven]

1. Boy that's some bullshit right there: "as a journalist, this should never have happened ***to me***"

Who should it have happened to then, huh? Someone without access or connections or name-recognition? You wanna own you actions, or nah?

Jeebus, what a non-apology apology!

Maybe that's a bad/inept translation into English or something, but holy fuck that sounds like a counterproductive "apology."