“Then the ‘Krone’ is the only medium that does not have an interview with the new minister on Sunday.” Such phrases are heard in Austria. Not daily, but regularly. The medium and the actor are different, but the underlying questions are always the same: who sets the rules? Who could rather afford to do without the other?
The “Krone” can afford not to interview Norbert Totschnig, Minister of Agriculture. We did it anyway. With the aim of making public an unspeakable practice that jeopardizes freedom of the press and thereby changing something.
The feedback from thousands of readers and the unanimous support of social media prove us right. Public approval is good.
error culture
More important, however, is the development of a culture of error in politics. And Norbert Totschnig showed it: Sunday the minister himself tried to speak to Maggie Entenfellner, who had previously vehemently rejected his press spokeswoman as an interviewer. He assured that he knew nothing of this refusal and agreed to catch up with her about animal welfare.
peace offer
Not only that: he wants to lead it together with the responsible minister Johannes Rauch. And he could imagine speaking again about the animal welfare package that his predecessor Elisabeth Köstinger had negotiated.
We’d love to have this conversation. And then measures the minister against his actions in the field of animal welfare, permanent assurance and fully slatted floors. And the consequences he draws from his press spokeswoman’s failed power games.
Source: Krone
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