Media Authority Sees Sufficient Reason to Withdraw Recognition From Ongehoord Nederland
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The Media Authority Advises the Minister to Remove Ongehoord Nederland From the Broadcasting System.
The Media Authority sees “sufficient grounds” for Minister of Education, Culture and Science Rianne Letschert (D66) to revoke the broadcaster’s accreditation. The regulator writes this in a letter to the minister following the “public outrage” over ‘Hitler glorification’ in an ON! program. Now it is up to the minister.
Minister Letschert (Media) will provide more clarity regarding the fate of Ongehoord Nederland after the weekend, now that media watchdog Commissariaat voor de Media has withdrawn its confidence in the broadcaster. The minister announced this in a statement on Thursday afternoon.
After political The Hague and the Dutch Public Broadcasting (NPO), the Media Authority is now also withdrawing its confidence in the broadcaster Ongehoord...
Of all the reasons to strip Ongehoord Nederland of its broadcaster accreditation, the reason cited by the Dutch Media Authority today in its letter to Minister Letschert is perhaps the worst. "As far as the Authority is concerned, the aforementioned broadcast (this broadcast is of course the one, GS) is the tipping point, as a result of which we no longer have confidence that ON! is capable of getting its operations in order and sustainably fulf…
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