“In the ORF executive suite at Küniglberg, they are apparently unable to accept the voters’ clear democratic expression of will and are therefore going a few steps deeper with the anti-FPÖ propaganda that is already on the agenda there. The ORF cannot express even more clearly that it sees itself as a broadcaster for the system and not for the population, which has to finance it with the ‘compulsory tax’,” said FPÖ media spokesman and General Secretary NAbg today. Christian Hafenecker, MA sharply criticized the ORF’s completely one-sided programming yesterday, Monday after the National Council election.
“In the ‘Report Special’, an attempt was made to create a mood against liberal participation in government by means of manipulative surveys, where, for example, the alleged coalition preferences of SPÖ voters, the FPÖ was not even asked, and left, among other things, the cartoonist Pammesberger, the husband of ORF -Editor-in-chief Waldner classifies the election results. Afterwards, the ORF organized a ’round table’ at which only well-known FPÖ opponents could complain about why the voters didn’t vote on Sunday as they obviously would have liked. In the ‘Culture Monday’ that followed, not only was there a completely uncritical report on the ultra-left election campaign with its misuse of the darkest chapter in our history of popular theater, but it also allowed chic artists to fantasize about the supposed ‘end of democracy’ and actually declare the citizens to be ‘stupid’.” , said Hafenecker. The final straw was an article in “Zeit im Bild”: “The population in rural areas was indirectly told that they were actually uneducated, had some vague fears and would therefore vote for the FPÖ to a large extent . The people in the countryside are good enough to pay the ORF household tax for the knights of privilege on Küniglberg.”
A low point had already been delivered on election Sunday by the ORF’s so-called “satirist”, Dave, who insulted FPÖ federal party chairman Herbert Kickl as a “fish, bird, such a sweaty fool” in a question to the Federal President when he was casting his vote.
Hafenecker emphasized that the voters on Sunday clearly rejected the fatal course of the black-green-red-pink unity party and thus also in the broadest sense of ORF’s tendentious reporting. “One not only has the impression that public broadcasting has allowed itself to be converted into the propaganda organ of the unified party, but that it is acting like a political party as its proverbial fifth column – people are fed up with that too and certainly don’t see that that they should also finance the whole thing with the ORF ‘compulsory tax’,” said the liberal media spokesman.
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