GroenLinks leader Jesse Klaver calls on the cabinet to intervene quickly. “It is terrible that journalists are threatened to such an extent that the NOS feels compelled to do so,” he says. “The increasing polarization is endangering our democracy and the rule of law.”
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PvdA MP Attje Kuiken also wants to ask the cabinet for extra measures. “This is really bad! Freedom of the press is like oxygen for democracy. Criticism is allowed (I do sometimes), but intimidation, threats and sowing suspicion must be over. ”
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“Keep your hands off journalists”, says D66 party chairman Rob Jetten. “Journalists control the power on behalf of all of us and sometimes bring us the news every day in difficult circumstances. You should not threaten those people, let them do their work. to do.”
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“Journalists who are going to hide to be safe. That is the beginning of the end of a free society, “said CDA member Harry van der Molen.” Here we draw a line. We must not give in to these tyrants. “
“Independent journalism is the basis for a well-functioning democracy,” tweeted VVD MP Arne Weverling. “Bizarre that this is necessary.” Party leader Gert-Jan Segers of the ChristenUnie speaks of “an attack on our civilization”.
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NOS editor-in-chief Marcel Gelauff has indicated that certain parties, including Thierry Baudet’s Forum for Democracy, feed distrust in journalism. Baudet does not feel responsible. He himself says that it is his job as a politician to express ‘cultural criticism’.
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“But the idea that this could be translated into threats in the physical sphere is of course terrible, absurd and abject and must be fought in the fiercest of terms,” he told EenVandaag.
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