« Questionable to disturbing » – diepresse.com
The SPÖ vice-chancellor and media minister calls the reporting on Graz « questionable ». He wants to take experts and « derive further steps ».
There has been a lot of criticism in the past few days of the procedure of some media in reporting around the killing spree at the Graz school. Vice-Chancellor and Media Minister Andreas Babler (SPÖ) also said: « In the reporting of the past few days, many extremely questionable to disturbing (sic!) Actions have been put on the part of the Austrian media, » he writes on Friday on the social media platform X.
Videos of events were shared and victims were « explicitly presented ». Witnesses were besieged, uninvolved people were disparaged, said the minister. « The dignity of those affected had to give way to the sensation of media. Their suffering was commercialized, » writes Babler in an eight -part post. « Hetzeric fake news » were consciously set « to increase the reach of your own online appearances and, above all, to create a political mood ». He sees a « border reached that must give us all and above all media managers, » said the minister.
Affected by false reports advises Babler to contact advice centers such as « counter -hate network » or the « White Ring ». In the coming weeks, he will invite experts to an exchange in the coming weeks to analyze the reporting and derive further steps from it.
According to the « standard », around 80 complaints have already been received by the press council until yesterday. As Alexander Warzilek, managing director of the Austrian press council, said on Wednesday when asked APA, the Senate 2 will deal with the reports in detail at the beginning of July. In general, it is important to consider the protection of the victims and their relatives. « You should always reflect twice and triple whether this could not be stressful. At the same time there is a big need for information. Of course there is a tension, » said Warzilek.
