Chat Revelations – ORF, “Presse”: The Editors Are On Fire!

Extinguishing this fire does not work at all – on the contrary, new oil is constantly being poured into it. So now more chat logs appeared Nowaks. The editorial by a colleague of Nowak’s editor-in-chief from his own group also caused a stir, not only in the media industry: Hubert Patterer of the “Kleine Zeitung” writes that Nowak “will take his responsibility”. Now people are puzzled: does one of them suggest that the other withdraw? Or does he – before the editorial meeting at the “Presse” on Monday – know more?

Chats with Schmid shake trust
The more it becomes known from the conversations between Rainer Nowak and Thomas Schmid, the more the minutes shake his recently published responsibility to readers: “I can assure you that in this paper interventions in our reporting, such as those in the departments of politics and economics come up again and again, are received in the editor-in-chief, but end there.” Whether they really always end up there is questioned not only in the editors of the “Presse.” Even before further chat logs appeared, Markus Mair, CEO of Styria, had on the one hand expressed his confidence in Nowak, but also pointed out that the mistake was due to the fact that “out of vanity or possibly misunderstood irony, communication is communicated with an official, as in general the case should not”.

And such communication is not worthy of an editor-in-chief. Hubert Patterer, also editor-in-chief under the Styrian umbrella, now writes in the Sunday edition of the Kleine Zeitung: “Rainer Nowak is a professional and business colleague. I appreciate him and many of his abilities, even if one of his talents, that of the bouncy dancer on the floor, was his downfall. He has never revealed the wall of fire within, but as I know him, he will face the responsibility.” If the colleague writes ‘in his own stable’ about ‘fatal’, about ‘taking responsibility’ – then it really burns here. How is this going to end, everyone is now wondering.

ORF team demands statement from boss
How it ends for ORF editor-in-chief Matthias Schrom isn’t just a question for Küniglberg’s shocked team. The journalist from the so-called state radio, who had been promoted to a “blue” ticket, had made disparaging comments about his own house and at least parts of his team in conversations with the then FPÖ boss Heinz Christian Strache, and Strache also gave tips. to deal with the ORF. Unsurprisingly, the team feels “needed” by their boss, demanding “extraordinary processing of these chat logs” in a statement.

APA Advisory Board Outraged by Threats
There is also excitement at the APA news agency. The editorial board of the Austrian news agency is outraged by the threats against the independence of the Austrian news agency that have come to light in the current corruption investigations. A broadcast reads: “We strongly reject the major donor of a governing party’s claim to the then vice-chancellor that the APA should be ‘cleaned up’. The APA – like only 20 of the 144 news agencies worldwide – is independent of the state, and that’s a good thing.” The background: ÖVP major donor Alexander Schütz once congratulated Strache with an ORF statement and formulated: “The red ticks paradise is everyone is the nerves!” He added: “And the APA needs to be cleaned up too.” Meanwhile, Schütz is the financier of a controversial online news portal…

It burns!