Do we need a www.az-neu.eu nowadays and if so, why?
To find a suitable answer to this question, it makes sense to look at the ownership structure of the Austrian media landscape. Austria’s media have a strong socio-political character in the direction of conservative to clerical and mixed by financially strong companies and families. This ensures financial security for more or less 100 percent of the daily media. In contrast, those media that lack such security have either shrunk to insignificance over the years or disappeared completely from the market.
Conclusion: For financial reasons, progressive, solidarity-oriented media do not have a fixed place in the Austrian media landscape. One can now lament powerfully about a lack of presence in the Austrian media centre. It is better to purposefully find new ways and means, and despite low financial resources, to impart important – I would mean necessary – social-democratic and socio-political knowledge mainly to those people who make up the majority of our society – namely the many.
Because a lot of progressive, social democratic information should not end at national and language borders, such a platform as the www.AZ-Neu.eu should take up topics and carry them beyond the horizon of the ‘island of Austria’. The aim should be to arouse mutual interest and understanding, from which a strengthening of solidarity and commonality develops.
A better life for all in a world worth living in can only be achieved together, but not with glory for the few, with isolation, with propagandistic nationalism or even with exclusion or even racism.
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More information about media in our AZ-Neu.eu under this link:
https://www.az-neu.eu/printmedien-in-%c3%b6sterreich-besitzverh%c3%a4ltnisse
One of these many negative examples:
https://kontrast.at/vermoegenssteuern-mehrheit-oesterreich/