I agree.
I remember in England the evening news were always about crimes. Never anything political really. I thought that was strange as a) I wasn't really interested in the gory details of such events and b) I always had to update myself on politics after I got back here.

Maybe it is a Swiss thing to not poke the nose into private affairs and feeling privacy starts basically where mine ends. Just like we leave our celebrities alone. Once I was shopping in Ikea and two well liked celebrities were there doing the same. Nobody gave them a second glance. It's kind of given here, that they too have a private life. So even the autographs are only demanded of them when they're on the job

Instead of groaning everyone which writes on this thread you could do some action on yourself.

- As someone suggested ask the police directly what is/was going on.
Here the office phone number of the Kapo Zurich
http://www.kapo.zh.ch/internet/siche...e/kontakt.html

-"The Press" cannot report about something which they are not aware off.
There are at least four distinct different news papers which cover your area:
https://www.limmattalerzeitung.ch
http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch
http://www.blick.ch
https://www.nzz.ch

Two smalish TV channels:
http://telez.ch
http://www.telezueri.ch

Ask them why the police did nor release a statement:
http://www.kapo.zh.ch/internet/siche...teilungen.html

But in the end this is not the US, where a talking head "reporter" is standing "at the scene" and commenting the obvious for hours and hours.

If that all does not help you can still contact Mr. Köppel and its Weltwoche. They sure will take it up and report about the Dietikon-Schlieren-Chopper-Incident-Cover-Up in multiple issues.

Emm yeahh. With Schlieren and Dietikon? Two towns with a higher than average foreign population? What comes out of the tab in this town is properly the better question to be asked. Kool-Aid?

PS: Groaning does not mean, "I object or disagree" it means more the like "Your comment made me puke, bastard." and is regarded as offensive.

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Exactly! I remember the night of the attempted overthorw in Turkey; All these US channels kept showing the same pictures and - worse - babbling about what/how/who/why it could be. I don't remember which channel I found which actually just gave the facts known at the time. And it was one of the few things that kept me up all night.

I guess lots of Swiss are like me: I just want the infos. I will make up my own mind about them, thank you very much.
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Once again aSwissintheUS has given OP all the tools to satisfy his/her curiosity.

What crossed my mind reading that detailed post is that we may not have every occurrence reported in the news/shoved down our throats here but we do have access to find out about it, if we feel we need/want to.

Oh, thanks for clarifying that.

Having a police helicopter circle over your street for 1 hour in the dark with lights and sensors is news. But I don't expect "you" to understand that.

Yes, it does.

Tom

If you really feel a need to keep track:

https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/pd/de/i...teilungen.html

Or this:

http://www.kapo.zh.ch/internet/siche...e/aktuell.html


This has nothing to do with "Press Freedom".
Easy to see were you might come from as a home country currently.

I will refrain from commenting on that, in case it impacts any current EF members

I live near the Uni Spital helicopter landing hub, and don't even consider who might be needing urgent treatment, or which transplant organ is being delivered.

You're just a self-centered, uncaring person, you are!

I used to live next to Kinderspital Zurich, they never informed me about the details why they woke me up neither. Not even the pilot who used to have coffee on our terrace in between flights. Now that it's mentioned that was way out of line!

What did you want? Name of criminal so you can send him parcels to jail? Age, hight, measures maybe so you could marry him to make his time in there nicer?

Good for you! I do not own a street. I don't have that problem

"Some things don't get reported," Well let us be practical here! There are around a hundred thousand adults convicted each year in Switzerland. If they only committed one crime each then that is over 250 per day.
You would need a newspaper the size of a telephone book to print details of all of them.
If in addition you printed a news story every time the police went out looking for someone then you would need several telephone books

What's a telephone book?

I've been away. What major crimes asre you refering to please? Just had a look around Google and can't find anything.

Well of course you can't find anything, there's no press freedom in Switzerland!

It's a fat novel with lots and lots of characters and no storyline. Which is probably why people stopped reading them.

That is exactly OP's point!

Actual ranking for 2017 is out if you interested:

https://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de...ne_Grenzen.pdf


1. Norway

7. Switzerland

22. Canada

40. GB

43. USA


180. Nord Korea

these reports and rank lists are always interesting to look at but should be viewed with skepticism and always consider who wrote it and for what interest. kind of like the WEF ranking switzerland no 1 economy every year...

additionally I know that many places have laws that give the public access to government information contract meetings transcripts and so on... I am sure switzerland does not grant the public such access to government information.

They already know in May for all of 2017?

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