scandal affected Aller's profits; the company reported a deficit of almost DKK 8 million for the financial year 2013/2014. Journalists had in the past been found to be one of the least trusted professions in Denmark, and the scandal led to a further decrease in publicly-perceived trustworthiness. Media debate The wider use of rewards for tip-offs by the tabloid press was debated. Culture minister Marianne Jelved described the rewards as unethical but conceded that they were not illegal and that she therefore did not wish to become involved in regulatory changes. Se og Hørs chief editor Nils Pinborg initially defended the rewards but later chose to suspend the system after Jelved's comments. Ekstra Bladet had a similar system, which chief editor Poul Madsen chose to continue. However, Ekstra Bladets rewards of between DKK 500 and 1,000 were significantly lower than those at Se og Hør. In contrast, other Danish media including DR, Politiken and Fyns Amts Avis do not pay their sources. Politiken in particular does not consider source payment to be "a trustworthy and ethical way to work". The independent press regulator decided not to initiate an investigation since they did not consider the revealed details explicit evidence that Se og Hør had used sensitive information. It did however encourage "the press to itself consider the question of paid sources and to decide whether there is a need to enshrine more specific advice in the guidelines about good press etiquette followed by the press itself". In a continuation of this announcement, the chief of the Danish Union of Journalists, Mogens Blicher Bjerregård, stated that he personally did not consider "paid sources to have a home in journalism". Aller Media had not registered its editorial database and was not alone in this. Other unregistered Danish media included Metroxpress, Berlingske Nyhedsbureau, Nordjyske Stiftstidende, Søndagsavisen, Ingeniøren, Radio24syv, and several of the regional divisions of TV 2. These organisations were thus in possible conflict with data protection legislation. The head lawyer at the journalism trade association Danske Medier believed there could be a "potentially huge problem" if many people exercised their right to have their information deleted from the unregistered databases. As a result of the Se og Hør case, politicians suggested a tripling of both the fines in press-related legal cases and the prison sentences for libel. Bent Falbert, a former editor-in-chief at Ekstra Bladet, called this "an uncivilised measure" and suggested