Dutch Rightwing National Poppulist Broadcast Corporation

[pieter]

Ongehoord Nederland (ON! : Unheard of Netherlands Broadcast corporation)

Ongehoord Nederland (ON! Unheard of Netherlands) is a broadcasting association that will be part of the Dutch public broadcasting system from 1 January 2022. The initiator is journalist Arnold Karskens. On December 4, 2020, ON! the 50,000 members required on the reference date 31 December 2020 to be eligible for admission to the NPO. In July 2021, this broadcaster received provisional recognition from Minister Slob.

Support

Politicians Geert Wilders of the Freedom Party (PVV) and Thierry Baudet of the Forum for democracy (FVD) have expressed their support for ON!. In addition to Arnold Karskens, the current board is formed by documentary maker Peter Vlemmix and former Member of Parliament for the PVV Reinette Klever. Co-founders include Joost Niemöller and former VVD (Conservative liberal) MP Ybeltje Berckmoes, both of whom left the Supervisory Board and the Board a few months after it was founded.






Journalist Arnold Karskens and ON (Ongehoord Nederland) initiator with 2 Dutch Black face, Zwarte Pieten

Reason for incorporation

The broadcaster wants to give a voice to the Dutch who do not feel represented in the public broadcasting system of the NPO about issues such as the growing political power of the European Union, the disadvantages of mass immigration, and the breakdown of Dutch culture and traditions such as Zwarte Piet (Black Pete, 'Sinterklaas' tradition). The broadcaster calls itself patriotic and sees similarities with right-wing parties such as PVV and Forum for Democracy.

Provisional recognition as aspiring broadcaster

In July 2021, it was announced that Ongehoord Nederland could receive broadcasting time on Dutch public television from 2022 and was provisionally recognized as an aspiring broadcaster. With this decision, Minister Arie Slob followed advice from the NPO, the Council for Culture and the Media Authority. Ongehoord Nederland must, however, subscribe to a code of conduct and stop portraying the NOS as "unreliable". This broadcaster recognition runs until 2026.

Programs

Since 2022, ON! programs at the NPO. From Wednesday 5 January, the weekly podcast Ongehoord Nieuwscafé will be made for NPO Radio 1, presented by Yernaz Ramautarsing. On Tuesday afternoon, February 22, the TV lunch program Ongehoord Nieuws will be broadcast live from The Hague between 12:00 and 13:00 on NPO 2. Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, news and current affairs are presented with politicians and commentators sitting down.

Presenters


Yernaz Ramautarsing (2022–present)

Ramautarsing has been discredited several times for statements linking intelligence to race and statements about homosexuality.

In a 2016 interview with Brandpunt, a Dutch tv journalism program, he made a link between IQ, peoples and race. "I would also have liked it to be different, that black people were hyper-intelligent, that Surinamese had the highest average IQ in the world. But it is not so."

Yernaz Ramautarsing caused some arrousal during and Amsterdam debate in 2018



Roelof Bouwman (2022-present)

Roelof Bouwman (Ede, 1965) is a Dutch historian and journalist.

Bouwman grew up in a Reformed (Calvinist Protestant) synodal family and felt politically at home with the ARP (the Anti-Revolutionary Party, a Protestant conservative and Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands from 1879 until 1980). From 1984 to 1987 Bouwman attended the Academy of Journalism in Kampen. In 2002 he obtained his doctorate at the Free University of Amsterdam on a biography of the CDA politician Willem Aantjes (1923-2015). As early as 1992, Bouwman wrote his graduation thesis at the VU about his concealed war past. Gradually, the idea arose to expand that story into a biography. From 2004 to 2013, he was editor of the opinion weekly HP/De Tijd. From Wednesday 5 January 2022, Bouwman and Yernaz Ramautarsing will present the weekly ON! podcast Ongehoord Nieuwscafé for (Public) NPO Radio 1.

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[karl]

Pieter

My self am impressed with this new Broadcast Corporation, not for the reason that it is a new start up, but for the reason as I gather, a better voice to represent information other news agencies may be missing. With this, the backing individuals such as Geert Wilders and of Thierry Baudet add a notch up of quality for the people for those two fellows are heavy weights in the relm of politics.

I do hope the backers of ON will succeed and bring this all in a measure of success. For fight for traditions that most other broadcast stations are not backing is good, for those traditions are for the many in spite of the few who wish to destroy.

Karl

[pieter]

Karl,

I hope so. I don't have a clear image of their journalistic quality and added value to the Dutch media and press? On the other side you have the new Black Broadcast Corporation 'Zwart' that entered the Dutch media arena, and 'Zwart' is the opposite of ON of Arnold Karskens. Zwart (Black) is multi-cultural, Black Dutch interests and more leftwing leaning than the rightwing Ongehoord Nederland (ON) of Karskens.



So Karl I hope that there is some balance in the tv, radio and written press world in the Netherlands.

Cheers,
Pieter

[pieter]

Broadcast corporation Black / Omroep ZWART



Omroep ZWART is a broadcasting association that will participate in the Dutch public broadcasting system from 1 January 2022. The initiators are rapper Akwasi and film director Gianni Grot. On March 31, 2021, Zwart was met with the 50,000 members, which were required on the reference date December 31, 2020 to be in the results for admission to the NPO (Dutch Public Broadcaster). In July 2021, this broadcaster received provisional recognition from Minister Slob.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandse_Publieke_Omroep_(organization)




One of the initators of Omroep Zwart (Broadcast Corporation Black) Film director Gianni Grot



The aim of the broadcaster is to make inclusive programs with new people. This includes considerations such as skin colour, preference, other, orientation, background of limitation. The broadcaster cooperates with BNNVARA ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNNVARA ) on certain levels.




BNN VARA has a leftist, progressive, radical liberal, social liberal and Labour kind of political heritage. The Omroepvereniging VARA, the VARA Broadcasting Association, was a Dutch public broadcasting association primarily operating in the fields of television, radio, publishing and interactive media. It was a member of Netherlands Public Broadcasting.

The association was founded in 1925 as the Vereeniging van Arbeiders Radio Amateurs (Association of Worker Radio Amateurs, VARA). The name was changed to Omroepvereniging VARA in 1957 and is no longer an acronym.

VARA originally focused on labour and socialism. In the era of Dutch pillarization the association had close links to the Social Democratic Workers Party (SDAP) and its successor, the Labour Party (PvdA). For many years VARA's chairmen, such as Marcel van Dam and André Kloos, were prominent members of the Labour party (PvdA). Although the connection between the two organizations loosened, affinities remain, such as a large overlap between their respective support bases.

BNNVARA supports Omroep Zwart. What's up with that?



BNNVARA provides organizational support to Omroep Zwart (Broadcast Corporation Black), since they have been admitted to the public system. After reaching 50,000 members, Omroep Zwart has its own accreditation from januari 2022. As prescribed by the Media Act, as aspiring broadcaster they must then cooperate with an existing broadcaster.

Omroep Zwart has an ambition that appeals to BNNVARA: serving a diverse target group and connecting people. BNNVARA are looking forward with great curiosity to the programs they will make and the added value they want to provide to the public system.

BNNVARA offers Omroep Zwart organizational support so that the new broadcaster can realize its own media offer. Omroep Zwart is an independent broadcaster and Omroep Zwart also remains completely independent of BNNVARA from an editorial point of view. They receive their own recognition and are completely independent about the content of their programs.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omroepvereniging_VARA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNN_(Dutch_broadcaster)

Provisional recognition as aspiring broadcaster

In July 2021, it was announced that ZWART could receive broadcasting time on Dutch public television from 2022 and was provisionally recognized as an aspiring broadcaster. With this decision, Minister Arie Slob followed advice from the NPO, the Culture Council and the Media Authority. This broadcaster recognition runs until 2026. At the same time, Ongehoord Nederland was also included in the system. In November 2021, ZWART already made a marathon broadcast online.

Programs


The women behind Omroep Zwart

ZWART has been broadcasting programs at the NPO since 2022. To begin with, the broadcaster may broadcast two nights a week on NPO Radio 1 and will have a regular feature in Giel Beelen's program on NPO Radio 2.

Presenters


Milouska Meulens (2022-present)


Amber Roner (2022–present)


Ciana Mayam (2022-present)

Criticism

Founder Akwasi was criticized for his performance at a demonstration on Dam Square as part of Black Lives Matter. During an interview with EO (Evangelical Broadcast Corporation) presenter Hans van der Steeg, he took the laptop from the editors and forced the recording of the conversation to be removed. Akwasi later apologized for his behavior in this interview.

[pieter]

Akwasi at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Amsterdam. Akwasi shouts at the demo; "We are not our ancestors, we will f*** you up!", the crowd repeats the slogan; "We are not our ancestors, we will f*** you up!" Akwasi refers to Maclom X's distinction between the 'House niggers' and 'the field niggers'. In the sense of the slogan their ancestors, the slaves were the obedient 'House niggers', and with the slogan Akwasi means, the Black crowd and Afro-Europeans should be Maclom X's 'the field niggers'.


The supportbase of broadcasting black

[pieter]

The spirit of Omroep Zwart reminds me of the Black Power movement and Public Enemy in the USA.

[pieter]

Karl,

I have my personal doubts about the journalistic quality and identity of these 2 Broadcast corporations in the far right and far left corners of the Dutch political spectrum, but if the NPO allows them to become part of the Dutch Public Broadcast system in Hilversum in the Netherlands, then they will have their reasons. In my opinion both Arnold Karskens and Akwasi Owusu Ansah have a hot temper, and can be aggressive and intimidating. But for some reason they are allowed into the system.

On December 28, 2020, Akwasi was interviewed for the radio program Dit is de Dag van de EO. After a few questions about his speech on Dam Square, he broke off the interview and ran off with two laptops from the broadcaster, and according to the EO presenter Hans van der Steeg forced to delete the interview a little later, under threat of deleting everything. on both laptops.

Arnold Karskens is a Dutch journalist, author and former war reporter. He is chairman of (prospective) broadcaster Ongehoord Nederland.

In an interview in 1996, Arnold Karskens (Beemster, 19 augustus 1954) , who comes from a resistance family, told when his book Messages from the front was published that as a child he became fascinated by stories of the grownups about 'the war': about occupation, robberies and shootings. Searching for "the connection between those bugged puzzle pieces" he eventually became a war reporter, one of the few in the Netherlands.

He started his career in 1981 visiting guerrillas from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP, People's Revolutionary Army) in El Salvador. Since then, he has visited about thirty different conflict zones. In 2008 he worked in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, especially Uruzgan. He insisted on working as an independent journalist and not as an embedded journalist. He participated in TV and radio programs by, among others, the RVU, VARA, BNR, VPRO, WNL, PowNed and NOS, and current affairs columns such as EenVandaag and VRT news. He was a regular table guest on talk shows such as Pauw & Witteman, Knevel & Van den Brink and Pauw.

In the night of Saturday 6 to Sunday 7 November 2010, Arnold Karskens was arrested at the North Station of Brussels on suspicion of disturbing public order. At the time, he was working on a report about people without residence permits, when the police wanted to close the train station.[4] According to his own statement in the newspaper De Standaard, his arrest was a pretext on the part of the police to delete a photo he had taken of a crackdown by the Brussels police.[5]

In September 2015, Karskens sailed in a boat carrying Iranian asylum seekers in the Ionian Sea between Turkey and Greece, where he was arrested for illegal border crossing. Karskens is a fierce opponent of large-scale Dutch military missions in countries such as Iraq, Mali and Afghanistan. He believes that foreign military interference does not contribute to long-lasting peace. He expressed himself highly critical of the Dutch police training mission in Kunduz in Afghanistan during a hearing on 24 January 2011 in the House of Representatives.

In 2016 Karskens published Journalist for sale - how corrupt are our media?, a collection of interviews with colleagues about journalistic ethics. For this book he spoke with Martin Sommer, Alexander Münninghoff, Ebru Umar, H.J.A. Hofland, Stan van Houcke, Theodor Holman, Joris Luyendijk, Annabel Nanninga, Udo Ulfkotte, Hassnae Bouazza, Rudie van Meurs, Derk Jan Eppink, Max Pam, Joost Niemöller, Martin Visser, Jan Roos, Brenno de Winter, Gertjan van Beijnum, Jan Dijkgraaf, Xandra Schutte and Eric Smit.

Between October 2017 and October 2019, Karskens kept a black book on NOS Journaal, in which he collected alleged misinformation and discrimination broadcast by the NOS Nieuwsdienst. He filed a complaint about it in 2019. The Public Prosecution Service has looked at the black book and has come to the conclusion that there were no criminal offenses.

Karskens collected a lot of information about Frans van Anraat and Guus Kouwenhoven, who were convicted of war crimes. He was also chairman of the War Crimes Investigation Foundation, which in particular tried to put the fugitive Dutch Nazi and war criminal Klaas Carel Faber behind bars. He helped co-complainant and relative Theun de Groot participate in the trial of Dutch SS man and Aktion Silbertanne participant Heinrich Boere in 2009-2010. He wrote the book De Beestmensch (2012) about the hunt for Faber. Since 2015, he has kept a list of ten Dutch war criminals from the Second World War who may have not yet served their sentences. His foundation has charged European Commissioner Frans Timmermans with political co-responsibility, culpable homicide, in the drowning of more than 15,000 migrants in the Mediterranean between 2014 and 2019.

In an interview in 1996, Karskens, who comes from a resistance family, told when his book Messages from the front was published that as a child he became fascinated by stories of the grownups about 'the war': about occupation, robberies and shootings. Searching for "the connection between those bugged puzzle pieces" he eventually became a war reporter, one of the few in the Netherlands.

On September 21, 2008, the International Day of Peace, Karskens was awarded the "Journalist for Peace" honorary prize for 2008 by the Humanistic Peace Council. The jury report stated, among other things: "It is of particular importance that in Dutch reporting on the critical war zones Iraq and Afghanistan he offers a valuable counterweight to the unfortunately still very common approach in which war zones are primarily viewed through the Western lens. As one of the few He consistently reminds us that in a war zone, every resident of that area killed is no less tragic than a fallen Dutchman or American, thus highlighting the breeding ground for bitterness against the West in much of the Islamic world. "

On 10 December 2008, Human Rights Day, Karskens received the Clara Meijer-Wichmann Penning, a human rights award that is presented annually by the League of Human Rights and J'accuse. Karskens received this award because he has painted an independent picture of the war in Afghanistan, in which the attention he has drawn and received for the Afghan civilian victims is essential for the recognition of their human rights, according to both organizations.

On March 16, 2013, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the chemical attack on the Kurdish city of Halabja, Karskens received a plaque from the Ministry of ANFAL of the Kurdish Regional Government. He also received a certificate from the residents of the affected city, as a thank you for his efforts in tracking down and trying the most important supplier of the raw materials for the deadly poison gas, Frans van Anraat.

Frans van Anraat



Frans Cornelis Adrianus van Anraat (Den Helder, 9 August 1942) is a Dutch businessman and war criminal who sold raw materials for chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s. On June 30, 2009, his conviction for complicity in war crimes was reduced by the Supreme Court to sixteen and a half years in prison.

Van Anraat was born as the son of the marine Frits van Anraat. After his studies to become a laboratory technician had failed, he left the Netherlands in the early 1970s. In Italy, Switzerland and Singapore, he is said to have worked as a technical consultant for engineering firms that built chemical plants in Iraq. That is how he ended up in the chemical trade. He founded his own company, which he named FCA Contractor after his initials, based in Bissone (Switzerland). Van Anraat lived in nearby Lugano. As a middleman, he is said to have supplied Iraq with thousands of tons of chemicals from 1984, including raw materials for mustard gas and nerve gas.

Van Anraat is said to have sold 538 tons of thiodiglycol to the Iraqi regime, which, combined with hydrochloric acid, could produce 700 tons of mustard gas. Part of the thiodiglycol was supplied to Van Anraat by Alcolac Inc. from Baltimore. It was shipped to Aqaba via Antwerp, from where it was transported to Iraq. Iraq used the mustard gas in the war with neighboring Iran.

On March 16, 1988, Iraq carried out an airstrike with poison gas on the Iraqi town of Halabja, which had recently been captured by Kurdish rebels with the support of Iran. The mustard gas and nerve gas used killed 5,000 Kurds and injured 10,000.

On January 27, 1989, Van Anraat was arrested in Milan, but was released pending an extradition request from the United States. He then fled to Iraq where he would stay for 14 years. His company FCA Contractor was liquidated in 1992. On December 22, 1997, the Americans asked the Netherlands for his extradition, but on November 20, 2000, the extradition request was withdrawn without giving reasons. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, Van Anraat fled to the Netherlands via Syria in 2003. He used a Dutch laissez-passer for this. Because he was no longer flagged as wanted, this could not be refused.


Frans van Anraat and Arnold Karskens in a Dutch court

In July 2004, the Netherlands submitted a request for mutual legal assistance to Switzerland, which was approved by the Swiss authorities in August. Documents related to Van Anraat, previously provided to the United States, were handed over to the Netherlands. In 2004, the former deputy head of the Iraqi chemical weapons division made an incriminating statement about Van Anraat to a Dutch examining magistrate in Iraq. On December 6, 2004, Van Anraat was arrested in his home by the National Criminal Investigation Department on suspicion of complicity in war crimes and genocide. It would be the first time that the relevant articles of law, which were drafted shortly after the Second World War, were applied. On January 27, 2005, Van Anraat's pre-trial detention was suspended, but the Public Prosecution Service successfully appealed against this decision and Van Anraat remained in prison. On November 21 of that year, the criminal proceedings against van Anraat started.

Van Anraat was the only Dutchman on the American FBI's Most Wanted list.

On December 23, 2005, Van Anraat was sentenced by the Court of The Hague to fifteen years in prison, the maximum sentence to be imposed, for complicity in war crimes in Iran and Iraq. Frans van Anraat had supplied raw materials to Saddam Hussein's regime, which were used for the poison gas attacks that killed thousands of civilians. Van Anraat was acquitted of complicity in genocide, because the court did not consider it proven that van Anraat had a genocidal intent when he supplied the raw materials.

Both Van Anraat and the Public Prosecution Service announced that they would appeal to the Court of Appeal in The Hague. On May 9, 2007, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for complicity in war crimes, two years more than the Public Prosecution Service had demanded and received in the first instance. He was again acquitted of complicity in genocide.

On June 30, 2009, his prison sentence was reduced by the Supreme Court to sixteen and a half years by exceeding the reasonable term for his appeal in cassation. Because of the 'Conditional Release' (VI) applied in the Netherlands, which entails a reduction of the actual prison sentence of one third, Van Anraat has been free since the end of 2015.

Karl,

In my opinion Arnold Karskens has seen to many wars and hunted to much Nazi war criminals and in such he has the agressive roots of his Dutch resistance family. You could say 3 good and heroic elements, a courageous war correspondent, a dedicated Nazi hunter and coming from a in Dutch perspective 'Good nest', 'Good family'. But all his frustration, irritation, aggression and fierce reporting he puts now in a partisan Rightwing National Populist Broadcast Corporation. He sided with dubious antisemitic, xenophobe and racist figures, but tries to keep his Broadcast Corporation clean. One thing is for sure he knows journalism, has experience as a journalist and want's to show the other side of the Rightwing National Populist parties in the Netherlands, the Freedom Party (PVV) of Geert Wilders, Forum for Democracy of Thierry Baudet and JA21 of Joost Eerdmans. Soon Wilders, Baudet and Eerdmans will find out that Karskens is a critical fellow, and unlike Fox News he will be critical towards the Dutch far right and right as well.



Cheers,
Pieter

[pieter]

PowNed is a Dutch broadcaster, which transmits radio and television programmes on the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system.

Each weekday evening it airs a satirical news show called PowNews on Nederland 3, in which politicians and other public and non-public figures are confronted with provocative questions, and often ridiculed.

The broadcaster was affiliated with and was started up with the help of the popular GeenStijl shock blog.

[pieter]

[pieter]

Arnold Karskens visits a refugee camp in Greece, he is against the mass immigration and shares the views of Geert Wilders, Thierry Baudet, Alternative for Germany in Germany, FPÖ in Austria, Donald Trump in the USA and Rassemblement national of Marine le Pen in France.



Tatjana Festerling


Tatjana Festerling

Tatjana Festerling (née Schimanski, 6 March 1964, Wuppertal) in this video is a German far-right politician who was a member of the organisation team of the political movement Pegida. She was expelled from the Pegida leadership for advocating that asylum-seekers should be shot if they attempt to cross the German border. Festerling trained in coaching and yoga and has two grown up children. In her spare time, she patrols the Bulgarian-Turkish border area together with local paramilitary forces.


Tatjana Festerling together with the Dutch leader of Pegida Netherlands in a paramilitary Bulgarian uniform

[pieter]

[pieter]

In De Week Van PowNed PowNed always put someone in the spotlight. Someone who could use some help. This week in Nov 12, 2016 Arnold Karskens needed help. In his hunt for Dutch war criminals, he wanted access to the state archives. However, the Dutch government refused to do this. And so Karskens started back then a crowdfunding campaign to gain insight and thus trace the last executioners from the Second World War.



"Even if we only find one that is still alive, it has been worth all the effort to see if there is justice in the Netherlands." Arnold Karskens is driven to the bone to track down the Nazi camp guards of camp Vught (Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch) and the other Dutch camps.

Folks,

This is not propaganda from my side for Arnold Karskens, nor free publicity, but I wanted to show you in images and in reality who is behind the new Dutch Rightwing National Poppulist Broadcast Corporation. I want to show you that a anti-Nazi, anti-fascist, anti-communist, anti-socialist, anti-liberal Nazi hunter, war correspondent and Rightwing Populist can be behind a far right Rightwing National Populist Broadcast Corporation.

It is maybe good that we have a rich variaty in the Dutch media and press like we have a rich diversity in Dutch politics with the Dutch House of Representatives with it's 20 different political parties and fractions. But we have to monitor the traditional pillarized Public Broadcast system of the NPO with the VARABNN, KRO-NCRV, EO, AVROTROS, VPRO, NPS broadcaster, PowNED, HUMAN (Humanistische Omroep - the secular Humanist Broadcast Corporation -), and WNL (broadcaster), the Commercial chanal world (RTL5, RTL5, RTL6, RTL7, RTL8, Talpa, SBS6) and our press with the National Telegraaf, Algemeen Dagblad (AD), Trouw, Volskrant, NRC Handelsblad and Parool Newspapers and regional PZC, Brabants Dagblad, de Limburger, de Gelderlander and Fries Dagblad and Dagblad van het Noorden, and De Twentsche Courant Tubantia in the Eastern Low Saxon Border region and the Elsevier, Vrij Nederland, Groene Amsterdammer, HP de Tijd, Panorama and Nieuwe Revue magazines, carefully for their journalistic standard, quality journalism, research journalism, their task of controling the Seperate Powers, the legislature, an executive, and a judiciary, of the Dutch trias politica model.

Journalists have to follow, monitor, network, gather information about, go to press conferences and press moment and press meetings of the government. They have to monitor what the various ministries and departments are doing in the Hague and elswehere, they have to monitor both chambers of the House of Parliament, the Tweede Kamer (House of Commons) and the Eerste Kamer (Senate), and they have to monitor the King and Queen who have a ceremonial and advising function but very little power in the Netherlands today.

The journalists have to follow the top civil servants, like the secretary generals of the ministries, the most powerful civil servants and civil servant specialists on several subjects. Journalists therefor have excellent relations with the press office of the General ministry of the Prime minister and the various Communication, Press & Public Relations people from the various ministries and departments.

The journalists also have to monitor the Financial, monetary and economical and social cultural state of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Netherlands and abroad. What are our domestic and foreign policies. What are our diplomats, our army, our Navy, our Airforce, Our Royal Dutch Marines and Commando Troops and Airborne Troops (Luchtmobiele Brigade) doing abroad? For instance the case of the Dutch F-16 jet serving with the US-led coalition in Iraq which killed about 70 people - Islamic State (IS) militants and civilians - in an air strike in 2015.

Journalists next to these subjects have to report about the environment of people. Neighbourhoods, city centres, villages, hamlets, Urban agglomerations. About Housing projects, social security, health care, hospitals and nursing homes, hospices, education, high schools, primary schools, kindergarten, organised crime, the entertainment industry, professional and amateure sport, tensions in society, social problems, demonstrations and riots, infrastruture, public transport, traffic, tourism, trade and diplomacy, the European Union, the National government, Provincial administrations and Muncipalities, city councils, mayors, aldermen, councillors and local political party organisations and citizens initiatives.

What about the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17), a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down on 17 July 2014 while flying over eastern Ukraine. Dutch journalists have files on that and years of investigation. In Ukraine (Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine), in Russia, in the Netherlands, in Malaysia, at Schiphol Airport, in the United Nations headquarters, in the Convention on International Civil Aviation, also known as the Chicago Convention, which established the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a specialized agency of the UN charged with coordinating international air travel. Into the technical cause of the crash, and a separate criminal inquiry, interviewing OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) monitors on the Crash site or in Kyiv, investigators from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) and the UK Foreign Office which sent extra consular staff to Ukraine, Dutch police officers, Australian police officers, Malaysian police officers, Ukrainian police officers, Rebel held territory police officers and armed militia men of the Donetsk Peoples Republic, forensic experts, Anatomic pathologues who examined the bodies of the victims, prime ministers, ministers of foreign affairs of the countries involved in this tragic and sad event. Research journalism is very important and in that Audi alteram partem (or audiatur et altera pars) is a Latin phrase meaning "listen to the other side", or "let the other side be heard as well". It is the principle that no person should be judged without a fair hearing in which each party is given the opportunity to respond to the evidence against them.

According to Robert McChesney, healthy journalism in a democratic country must provide an opinion of people in power and who wish to be in power, must include a range of opinions and must regard the informational needs of all people.

Many debates centre on whether journalists are "supposed" to be "objective" and "neutral"; arguments include the fact that journalists produce news out of and as part of a particular social context, and that they are guided by professional codes of ethics and do their best to represent all legitimate points of view. Additionally, the ability to render a subject's complex and fluid narrative with sufficient accuracy is sometimes challenged by the time available to spend with subjects, the affordances or constraints of the medium used to tell the story, and the evolving nature of people's identities.

Data journalism – the practice of finding stories in numbers, and using numbers to tell stories together and integrated with Investigative journalism – in-depth reporting that uncovers social problems is extremely important in my point of view. Researching facts, what is the truth and the whole truth, that is the role, aim and duty of a professional journalist. Data journalists may use data to support their reporting. Political journalism - coverage of all aspects of politics and political science, Global journalism - journalism that encompasses a global outlook focusing on intercontinental issues, Broadcast journalism – written or spoken journalism for radio or television, Business journalism - tracks, records, analyzes and interprets the business, economic and financial activities and changes that take place in societies and Interactive journalism – a type of online journalism that is presented on the web are for me part of that Investigative & Data journalism. First you have to have a real subject, a substantial subject, a valuable subject, a subject which is of interest and informative for your reader, viewer and listener. What is the news value, what is the importance of the subject is the first thing you have to ask yourself when you do editorial work in a newsorganisation. Why should I go after this subject and not after another subject?

As a journalist on the news desk, you always have to justify yourself for the topic you have chosen. In the news department, critical colleagues and editor-in-chief and editors-in-chief will analyze your subject rationally and question you critically about your subject. The subject takes shape from the defense of your subject and your colleagues will eventually accept it, provided it has news value and a certain quality and depth and relevance and social usefulness. This is what I observe daily at my broadcast corporation RTV Connect in Arnhem where RTV Connect colleagues work together with Omroep Gelderland and NOS colleagues. Today I am bussy with 2 programs which have less to do with news but more with history. A general history program about our region (Middle Gelderland) and an Architecture program. I stepped away from local politics and fresh news for a new challange.

In the case of an interview on radio or tv the most important focus is the listener and the watcher. He or she comes first, secondly comes the guest whom is interviewed and last but not least comes the interviewer/presenter/anchorman/anchorwomen. In this media and press world often Ego's are as big as an elephant, Sperm whale or a Boeing 747 long-range wide-body airliner. That is not right and not okay. A good reporter, interviewer, presenter, anchormen or anchorwoman is modest, to the point and fact finding directed and will give his or her audience (the listener/watcher/reader) the most space, the Guest a lot of space but less space than the audience and him or herself the third place, but in the same time he or she quides, coaches, directs and controls the debate, discussion, interview or monologue or dailogue of the guest. You have to be the boss over the microphone.

An example of good research journalism


Cheers,
Pieter