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Originally Posted by Chris
Having watched that as broadcast, I have to say I was left with the distinct impression that the reporter was trying to mention it, whilst giving it the bare minimum prominence and also being very careful to find people who would stand up and say that the ethnicity of the attackers were "unproven allegations".
Given that there is plenty of evidence emerging that the authorities tried to keep a lid on this from the moment it first took place, news organisations should be treating any and all official denials with extreme scepticism, and not using them to provide false balance in their stories.
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The Newsnight report seems to lead with the alleged ethnicity of the attackers in the context of Germany's migration problem but I don't see the problem with the BBC being careful about it.
We're still not clear on the scale of this, the crimes alleged and the status of those who did it. The numbers for example vary wildly from hundreds of men to small groups and so on. Reports are coming of it happen in other German cities but we're not sure what exactly happened in those cities. It may have happened in Finland too but the police were proactive.
The real lighting of the fuse here will be the nationality of any of those arrested. If they are, as suggested, refugees then this will become a massive issue. Until we know for sure though....