I noticed this coming up today via Focus (the German news magazine). The story goes this way.....the Austrian public TV network, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation....wrote up a draft regulation.
It is not final, but it basically says that employees of the network.....public TV mind you....would be forbidden from talking on social media (meaning Facebook) on political topics.
Why? The ORF director basically said that it's a necessity to guarantee "objectivity, impartiality and independence" of the network.
No one says in any factual way, but there is some hind that the trustees board, which are appointed to monitor and ensure a fairness to public TV.....are the ones who drove this.
Hyper over the draft? Well......some folks say the journalists are fairly angry.
There were three elections in 2016 and 2017 within Austria, and I suspect that the trustees sat and viewed a number of personalized agendas by reporters, and just sat there asking themselves how far they'd allow them to take this commentary (even in private social media).
The problem I see is that even here in Germany.....this draft idea might be discussed and pushed to some degree here.
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