“On August 16th, ARD (public broadcasting newschannel) Tagesschau evening news bulletin chose not to mention a grim murder in the central German town of Offenburg.”
https://tpo.nl/2018/08/16/arts-doodgestoken-in-eigen-praktijk-te-offenburg-duitsland/
“A doctor had been stabbed to death in his practise that morning with no obvious explanation for why. Hours later police arrested his suspected murderer – an asylum seeker from Somalia who arrived in the country in late 2015.”
https://tpo.nl/2018/08/17/man-die-duitse-huisarts-in-praktijk-doodstak-is-somalische-asielzoeker-26/
“After receiving complaints from the public for its decision not to cover the crime, Tagesschau’s editor-in-chief Kai Gniffke publicly justified the decision.”
https://blog.tagesschau.de/2018/08/18/der-toetungsfall-in-offenburg/
“He explained that Tagesschau only reports on news that has ‘a societal, national or international relevance – things that are meaningful to the majority of the 83 million Germans.'”
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/berichterstattung-offenburg-101.html
“Murders committed by refugees would only be relevant to the whole country ‘if refugees are over-proportionally likely to be involved in committing homicide’ he argued. ‘As far as we can tell from our research, this isn’t the case – therefore we decided not to report on the crime.'”
https://www.thelocal.de/20180827/when-should-the-media-report-on-murders-by-refugees