In February, NRK presenter Shaun Henrik Matheson made the following statement about Israel in the radio program “Shaun on P13”:
«Can there really be good news from this country? Well, in a way. In a way that you have heard, and if we are only to think of ourselves, and forget all about the atrocities and killings the Israelis are committing on the Palestinian people».
– NRK should simply give him the job
He further stated that there were low infection rates among those vaccinated against the coronavirus in Israel.
“It’s almost like I wish the vaccine didn’t work … I can ‘t say, sorry, I get it, heck, too,” Matheson said.
Afterwards, NRK withdrew the feature.
The newspaper days The Progress Party’s leader Sylvi Listhaug asks if NRK should fire the host.
– Yes, I mean it. NRK should take responsibility and simply give him the blame for what he did. I do not think it is right that you can make such statements and still keep the job, Listhaug answers to Dagen.
Received several hundred complaints
NRK’s entertainment editor, Charlo Halvorsen, says this in a statement to Dagen:
“Matheson has received clear feedback from his editorial director and he has also sincerely apologized for the feature, among other things. in its own program the following day. NRK has also regretted a number of times that parts of the feature had an anti-Semitic content “.
The Broadcasting Council received over 500 complaints after the tirade. NRK received harsh criticism when the statements were recorded in the Norwegian Broadcasting Council
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