After the sharp criticism of Vice Chancellor Andreas Babler (Spö) on ATV, the private broadcaster responds immediately. The controversial series “The Love Business” will be paused next Wednesday and will be subject to a content research, as ATV has announced on Sunday evening.
“I got extracts from shipping that glorify sexual violence,” the Spö Boss and Media Minister criticized the private broadcaster ATV on Saturday. “This open viewing place of sexual exploitation of women is not looking for something on TV or somewhere in our society,” said Babler on X (see posts below).
ATV: “Extensive internal process has started”
ATV responds to the violent criticism of the series and “immediately launched an extensive internal process” to undergo all the consequences of “Re -Quality Control”, the broadcaster said on Sunday evening. The most controversial episode and all clips have already been taken offline. Moreover, all non -published consequences would be checked and, if necessary, revised.
ATV emphasizes a clear attitude in the broadcast: “The broadcaster rejects strictly sexist and racist content, as well as violence and misogyny.” Although life -TV life of escalating and realistic representations, ATV clarifies that “such components have no room in this genre.”
Ladies bosses follow ATV against ATV
The women’s chairman of Spö, ÖVP, Neos and Greens have also had a sharp criticism of the ATV series. In an open letter they described the program as “sexist, racist and contemptuous for women”. Women would be “treated” in it, while violence, attacks, humiliations and possessions are normalized – a trivialization of violence and misogynia, which is “unacceptable”.
Given the alarming situation in Austria, such an image of women is unacceptable, the emphasis on the signatories. “In a country in which every third woman is struck by violence, we can no longer accept the contempt for women who are publicly shown,” said Spö ladies chairman Eva-Maria Holzleitner, spokeswoman for the ladies Juliane Bogner-Strauß, Neos Words Wordswoman Henrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstrikstar and Green Women’s chairman Meri Disoski.
The four women’s seats ask ATV to “fulfill their responsibility for a free, equal and democratic society”. The trivialization of sexual violence is not one of them.
It is only on Saturday that the fourth woman in Austria this year is the victim of a brutal femica. The chairman of the women warns that violence often starts with humiliation and relegation and eventually ends in attacks. “This must be over,” demand and emphasize: “We all take responsibility for respectful cooperation.”
Source: Krone
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