By Martin Hoffmann
Austria is in discussion about the “fake news” demonisations from Vice-Chancellor Strache against the ORF moderator, Armin Wolf. More than a personal feud is behind this: the independence of the public broadcaster is at stake.
Austria: “Since the FPÖ politicians are part of the national government, the attacks on independent journalists are drastically increasing”
Austria’s Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache announced it, already before the forming of government in December: “they want to secure optimisation at the Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), this would also apply to the little objective reporting”. With “sounds interesting”, the announcement of the FPÖ man was roundly answered…