Overview
- The children's news show 'logo!', which ran two back-to-back religion pieces Thursday, drew a formal complaint from a former ZDF correspondent.
- The Ramadan segment showed real families, food and gifts, then an explainer on Christian churches focused on indulgences, church power and recent crimes against children.
- Thorsten Alsleben filed his complaint with the ZDF television council, called the church piece one-sided, and asked for an apology with a counterstatement.
- ZDF called the juxtaposition 'unlucky' and unintended, said each piece was produced for separate news reasons, and said teams have reviewed the lapse to improve coordination.
- The episode remains available in the ZDF Mediathek, as CNA’s first report and coverage by WELT, FOCUS and Junge Freiheit fueled a wider debate on how children’s news should present religion.