Press expelled from MP Geert Wilders political party
A reporter for the Dutch TV programme PowNews was shown the door out of the café where Geert Wilders’ (anti-Islam and anti-EU) Freedom Party supporters gathered for the election night. Jan Versteegh and his cameraman were taken by security after they were told they were posing “unwelcome questions” (sic). Moments before they were expelled Versteegh...
Public television = propaganda machine?
A new report on the future of the Portuguese public television RTP suggests all information from that broadcaster’s international service should be filtered by the government. The person responsible for the study João Duque says the promotion of Portugal’s image abroad should be within the “vision of an external policy” under the guidance of the...
Oops, he did it again…
Dutch cartoonist Adriaan Soeterbroek did it again: he has upset PVV leader Geert Wilders with another of his cartoons. Earlier this year Soeterbroek saw one of his cartoons removed from the website Joop.nl after a number of serious threats were made to some of his colleagues. In his cartoon he associated a housing policy proposed...
How far will you go for your craft?
I suppose one thing I struggle each day is to report on an event in the most objective way possible. Obviously, we want to craft our work the best we can – and some might call us ‘ artists’ because of that. But we should never forget our main role: to report the facts. A...
