The ‘Krone’ report on a complaint about possible advertising corruption against the media clean-up actions at ‘Falter’ is causing a lot of commotion. Also with the editor-in-chief and co-partner of the Wiener Stadtzeitung. His reaction is remarkable. A small chronology:
Once upon a time there was an advertisement – and the accusations it makes are not worth a single line for either politicians or the media. What sounds like the beginning of a fairy tale is exactly what ‘Falter’ is like. Presentations of the facts to the Public Prosecution Service are widely published, commented on with videos and classified online and in newspapers. Also partly in a well-known ORF interaction, for example with an editor who had already been warned in his personnel file about his Twitter messages that were not exactly ‘neutral’ under public law. After all, you are the moral authority of the nation.
Call for justice
Ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz in handcuffs, his girlfriend as the naked Mother of God. Everything in the spirit of the freedom of art. If Florian Klenk and his Viennese city newspaper are ever hit, as is now the case, there will be a major attack online. It may also happen that in your excitement you personally describe the questioning “Krone” editor and writer of these lines as a “worthless guy” because of the word suspicion, on which a complaint is always based. Despite correct inquiries and waiting for an explanation before publishing the report. To be on the safe side, Klenk also calls the senior prosecutor from the media office of the Public Prosecution Service for Economic Affairs and Corruption, so that he can explain to the investigating colleague what is going on. In an ongoing case.
Imagine if the judiciary responded this way to a call from another media or party secretary. In the eyes of the ‘Falter’ that would probably be an intervention. But as the editor-in-chief and director of the city newspaper so beautifully says: “Our conscience is completely clear.” So everything is super clean, right?
Source: Krone
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