Raketa (satirical magazine)

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Raketa is an Austrian internet satirical magazine .

Raketa was founded in April 2002 as a separate media project by former editors of the satirical portal of the Austrian daily newspaper " Der Standard ", which existed until January 2002 .

The concept of Raketa is based on interactivity with the users (called Les @ s ), the focus is on current text-image articles that readers can design and send in. Comments can be posted under each post without registration . Collages and picture montages make up the main part of the content. In addition, Raketa has picture sections ( cartoons , rebus , underwear man of the day), literary sections, cultural tips and weblogs .

The main focus of the satire is Austrian domestic politics and the media, but the topics are not limited to these.

Predecessor / development

From 1999, the internet satire portal “The Yellow Page” appeared as a subpage of the “ Der Standard ” website . In this primarily the most irrelevant chronicle reports (“Pig drove butchers to flee”) were offered. In autumn 2000 this page was separated as an independent website under the name “derZustand”. In 2002, derZustand.at developed into Raketa.

Litigation

In 2004, Raketa was threatened several times by the ÖVP with lawsuits, each time because of “denigrating” the conservative candidate for the federal presidential election, Benita Ferrero-Waldner. Some motifs actually had to be removed from the website, others modified or provided with censorship bars . The motif “Anyone who has already been to Benito , will vote for Benito this year too!” Caused a particular sensation. The case was also reported in the media.

In February 2006, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Christoph Leitl Raketa, threatened to file a lawsuit if the internet magazine did not remove a satirical montage with the slogan "If the economy is doing well, we are all doing well". In addition, the Chamber of Commerce has the copyright on the slogan “Understand. Think. Act ”and the corporate design of the logo.

Also in February 2006 the ORF Balkan correspondent Christian Wehrschütz asked Raketa to remove a post made by a reader under the name "Christian Wehrschütz". The content of the post was “Re: a huge mess. I've never seen a vagina in my life ! ”The ORF editor sends a message via a lawyer:“ Consumers of www.raketa.at get the impression that our client has posted under his own name. ”The content of the article and reader comments have been removed from the page.

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