Martin Strutz upset about TV coverage of Haiders death
The general secretary of the BZÖ (Alliance for the future of Austria), Martin Strutz, is not happy about the coverage of the Austrian broadcasting station about the death of BZÖ party leader Jörg Haider.
There’s more to it than that. The programme director of the public service broadcasting, Wolfgang Lorenz, continues to provoke the BZÖ politican. Lorenz explains that his TV station had to “build a medial antithesis to the death of Jörg Haider.”
Strutz thinks that such a sentence exposes the impertinence of the Austrian TV makers. “It’s a scandal that not even a case of death can stop the political agitation in televsion”, moans the BZÖ politican.
The last straw that broke the camel’s back was a TV show by the two comdians Dirk Stermann and Christoph Grissemann. Just some days after the tragical accident they were making jokes about the death of Jörg Haider.
Martin Strutz demands the retirement of the programme director, and thinks that such a disgrace was never seen before in the history of the German speaking TV scenery.