Dutch journalists face hostile environment while covering curfew riots
Dutch Justice Minister condemned the violence against journalists during last days curfew riots in the Netherlands. DW spoke to public broadcaster NOS.
Initially, the anti-curfew protests in the Netherlands had begun peacefully, but escalated as groups of protesters clashed with the police, threw fireworks and vandalized buildings and shops. The country’s current nightly curfew due to the coronavirus pandemic is the first one since World War II.
Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhaus condemned the violence that was also directed at journalists, stating that this is simply criminal behavior; people who deliberately target police, riot police, journalists and other aid workers.
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RSF tallied 580 attacks against media in Brazil in 2020
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President Jair Bolsonaro poses for the presidential photographer during a visit to an institution, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 15 December 2020, Miguel Schincariol/Getty Images Reporters Without Borders (RSF) provides a quantified assessment of press freedom violations in 2020 and looks back at some of the most significant episodes in a year in which constant harassment by President Bolsonaro and his immediate circle poisoned the environment for journalists.
This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 25 January 2021.
In the latest of its series of reports on attacks against the media under President Jair Bolsonaro, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) provides a quantified assessment of press freedom violations in 2020 and looks back at some of the most significant episodes in a year in which constant harassment by the president and his immediate circle pois
The fact that the media of European Union (EU) countries show little interest in the EU, has long been seen as the greatest obstacle to the emergence of a European public sphere. However, today we also need to consider whether focusing on European issues is necessarily synonymous with acknowledging the desirability of a common European identity – what we might in this context refer to as
convergence.
Could such a focus perhaps indicate a more negative tendency instead? Populist politicians such as Boris Johnson, Viktor Orbán and Matteo Salvini often use the EU and its representatives as objects of derision in their drive to stir up antagonism towards the idea of a united Europe. However, while the populists’ obsession with the EU helps to ensure that European issues regularly dominate the media agenda in their respective countries, this is not quite the same thing as creating a European public sphere.
English By Ezel Sahinkaya Share on Facebook Print this page WASHINGTON - Olay TV began broadcasting late last year with ambitions to become a mainstream national news channel in Turkey’s polarized media environment. But the channel lasted just 26 days before closing under what its editor said was government pressure.
The station was set up as a partnership between Cavit Caglar, who had an existing license for a local broadcasting venture, and Huseyin Koksal, a businessman with the capital to invest, a journalist familiar with the setup told VOA.
Less than a month into the broadcasts, Caglar, a former minister and businessman, pulled out of the deal, saying in a statement he was disturbed by the channel’s editorial line being too close to the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).