that german media is biased towards the government and its coverage of the refugee crisis claudia zimmerman said the journalists are instructed to report in a pro-government way when it comes to the migrant crisis that revelation was made back in january of two thousand and sixteen in an interview about the cologne sex attacks she gave that to a dutch radio station later she was asked to apologize over highlighting negative sides of anglo-american welcoming policy our sister channel r.t. deutsch spoke exclusively to the journalists that the center of the controversy. journalists tend to support chancellor merkel's refugee policy throughout the media not just at the channel i work for some journalists including me try to pitch more critical stories but they were not approved that's why i spoke out stories that failed to welcome or support this policy are being blocked honestly at first i did not understand the situation the whole situation that occurred because of this as a channel stated there was a lot of damage in a public field i cooperated and did everything possible to minimize the dam

the concerns and fears of the german population with regard to the country's migration policy claudia's zimmerman claims there are topics journalists want to cover and are simply not allowed to. i would wish to many more colleagues to do more critical coverage the pressure comes from to top down i know from some colleagues that there are certain topics which they would like to cover but these topics were not approved because they were too critical because they don't fit to format of to program i think it's significant it would be significant for journalism in germany. thanks for staying with us here on ars he came across what's happening around the world at our website and on our social media pages i'll be back with more of today's headlines in just over half an hour. welcome to it are already out right after that one that you're back. her. would call make this manufacture consent to the public well. when the ruling class isn't protect themselves. if suddenly the one percent. of the room sit. really. real. live live . do you. think. he. was going to do. the boss may be. going to make him do you.