The Austrian newspaper reduces links with the writer on Clint Eastwood “Exclusive” | Austria

One of the main newspapers in Austria has broken the ties with a Hollywood journalist after admitting that she has reconditioned the old comments of Clint Eastwood and presented them as a Exclusive interview.

In an apparent journalistic coup d’etat, the Daily Kurier, based in Vienna, published an Q&R with Eastwood last Friday and it was taken over in the world during the weekend due to the frank criticism of the Oscar-winning actor of “the era of remakes and franchises” of Hollywood.

On Monday, however, Eastwood published a statement saying that he had never spoken to Kurier’s interviewer and that the exchange was “fully biased”.

In a statement published on Tuesday afternoon, Kurier’s editor-in-chief, Martin Gebhart, denied that the quotes had been composed, saying that the author of the article had “convincingly explained that she had spoken to Eastwood 18 times on round tables”, referring to group interviews commonly organized during festivals.

However, Gebhart conceded that the presentation of the equipment of several meetings of this type with the press as an exclusive interview does not comply with the “quality standards” of his newspaper, and he said that this would not work with the journalist in the future.

“Even if no quote has been manufactured, the interviews are documented and the manufacturing accusation can be refuted, we will no longer work with the author in the future because transparency and our strict editorial standards are essential to us,” he said.

The author of the play, Elisabeth Sereda, an Austrian journalist based in the United States, regularly wrote on Hollywood celebrities for Kurier and other Austrian media. Member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, she is listed as a voting member of the website Golden Globes.

In recent months, Kurier has published Sereda interviews with several high -level actors, including Pamela Anderson, Sarah Jessica Parker and Jude Law.

Sources close to the law said that no interview between the British actor and the Austrian journalist had taken place and that the only time Kurier could have obtained direct quotes would have been at a press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival last year when Law spoke to promote his Eden survival thriller.

Sereda was approached by the Guardian for comments.

Intended to mark the 95th anniversary of Eastwood, the quotes presented in the Kurier room attracted world attention.

“I want the good old days when the writers wrote films like Casablanca in small bungalows on the studio. When everyone had a new idea,” said the actor. “My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home.”

In his declaration on the deadline for commercial publication, Eastwood said: “I thought I was setting the record straight. I can confirm that I was 95 years old. I can also confirm that I have never given an interview to an Austrian publication called Kurier, or any other writer in recent weeks, and that the interview is entirely bogus. ”