TV Nova is fined over coverage of brutal killing…

The Czech broadcasting council has fined the commercial station TV Nova CZK 1,000,000 (around USD 65,000) for showing particularly raw images of the remains of a murder victim in an afternoon news broadcast in January. The victim’s killer had cut up her body and buried it in the grounds of a school in north Bohemia. Nova broadcast pictures of the body parts following their discovery and described the killing in some detail. The broadcasting council said both the video and the descriptions could have been harmful to young people.

Author: Ian Willoughby