2023-07-05 18:21:27
After the media spokesman for the Lower Austrian ÖVP wanted to deny Falter quality journalism, Constitutional Minister Karoline Edtstadler said she can understand the statements. Journalism shouldn’t be regarding doing the work of prosecutors.
finds understandable Constitutional Minister Karoline Edtstadler the statements of the Lower Austrian ÖVP regional manager Bernhard Ebner. This one had on Tuesday Falter Editor-in-Chief Florian Klenk criticized. “If journalists, like the editor-in-chief of Falters Dr. Florian Klenk, describe themselves as left-wing, they are inevitably sentimental journalists,” he had let him know via broadcast.
Tasks of journalists
The constitutional minister does not want to be the explainer of a state manager, but as a citizen she expected that “in our constitutional state everyone will turn to their tasks once more.” After all, the tasks of journalism include clarifying, presenting and reporting things objectively, she explains to PULS 24 anchor Daniel Retschitzegger in an interview.
“Sometimes you have the feeling that one or the other is not regarding reporting,” but some journalists would try to do the work of courts or the police, she continues. She does not name the Falter editor-in-chief, but emphasizes that it is not the job of journalists to do the work of the prosecutors or to support them. “I therefore believe that everyone should return to their duties in a constitutional state. I would also like that,” says the minister.
Understandable criticism
Asked if she agrees with the Lower Austrian media spokesman Ebner, Edtstadler says she knows what the broadcast means and can understand it. “Sometimes you have to escalate politics,” she says.
Florian Klenk had previously described himself as a “left-wing liberal” in an interview. He was in favor of left-wing politics and for the socially disadvantaged, but he also did not spare criticism of left-wing parties. He was a “political actor” and “the moth can no longer be associated with quality journalism,” Ebner then let him know.
Criticism came immediately on Tuesday from ZiB2 moderator Armin Wolf, who described the broadcast as “bizarre” and “grotesque”.
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