Germany: TV reporter apologizes for smearing mud on herself at flood site

Deutsche Welle ^ | 07.23.2021 | lc/dj (dpa, EPD)

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A German television reporter has apologized after a video surfaced of her smearing mud on herself ahead of a broadcast from an area devastated by floods last week.

RTL presenter Susanna Ohlen, 39, said it was a “serious mistake” to add mud to her clothes before reporting from the areas heavily hit by deadly floods in Germany.

“As a journalist, this should never have happened to me. As a person who takes the suffering of all those affected to heart, it has happened to me. I’m sorry,” she wrote on Instagram. […]

While the video apparently shows her also putting the dirt on her face, the reporter did not give a reason for it.

Ohlen, who also hosts “Good Morning Germany,” had been introduced to the program as a person who had helped with the cleanup in Bad Münstereifel, a town in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which saw widespread damage following record rainfall last week. …

[a fool in paradise]

this is nothing new in reporting

[BenLurkin]

Not the same reporterette

[dfwgator]

Oh geez, as if we didn’t know already that all news is nothing but propaganda.

[CatOwner]

Oh, come on! It isn’t the methods. It’s the message! /s

[ClearCase_guy]

“As a journalist, this should never have happened to me ... it has happened to me."

Could her voice BE any more passive? It just happened?

[Yo-Yo]

[dfwgator]

Reminds me of the scene in "Broadcast News", where he stops the camera to work up some tears.

[Seruzawa]

“As a journalist, this should never have happened to me....”

What? It “happened” to you? Somebody else did it to you?

A typical “journalist” with out the slightest sense of responsibility. “It happened to me.” What shyt.

[JohnBrowdie]

she’d look good muddy.

[BenLurkin]

I say she's not guilty. But if she gets fired she can come live with me in my hovel. I'll brush up on my High School German

[Lurkinanloomin]

“As a journalist, this should never have happened to me. As a person who takes the suffering of all those affected to heart, it has happened to me. I’m sorry,”
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It did not happen to you, you DID IT!

[Kenny500c]

She basically apologized for caring too much about others.

A complete phony, disgusting.

[SIDENET]

As a journalist, this should never have happened to me.

"happened to me"

Wow, ya'll hear that? Poor gal is a VICTIM.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

If she hadn’t have been caught on video and outed as a phony faking her reporting what are the odds of her apologizing for her disgusting behavior? It would have been just another story by a reputable journalist.

[Red Badger]

She’ll fit right in at NBC.......................

[broken_clock]

[Hazwaste]

TV news reporters are the scum of the earth. Change my mind.

[bobcat62]

Is CNN hiring?

[Fresh Wind]