Photo: DPAAn influential German institute has studied thousands of article published by daily newspapers during the refugee crisis. “Most journalists failed in their job as someone who is supposed to objectively explain the world to readers,” Haller told Die Zeit. The report concludes that the moralistic reporting by the major newspapers “massively contributed” to a loss of trust in the mainstream media and a split in German society. At the height of the crisis, tens of thousands of people passed into the country every day. The arrival of huge numbers of refugees led to the rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), a far-right party which consistently opposed the government’s refugee policy.

Source: The Local July 21, 2017 12:00 UTC