– MDG’s policy is completely misrepresented by NRK. It is incomprehensible that they refuse to correct after we have pointed it out several times, says MDG deputy Kriss Rokkan Iversen.
Rokkan Iversen is from Svolvær and became involved in the MDGs not only because of the climate and environment, but because she believes the party also facilitates scattered settlement.
However, NRK does not think so.
I NRK’s election machine the following statement is made:
“We must use far more of the public resources to make it easier for people to live in the village.”
The national broadcaster then places the parties from “completely disagree” to “completely agree”.
There, the MDGs are placed together with the FRP, the Conservatives and the Liberals on “slightly disagree” that the state should facilitate scattered settlement.
However, SV and the Center Party get a “top score” in the large district issue with “completely agree” with the statement.
ERROR? MDG is placed together with the Conservatives, the Greens and the Liberals as the parties that make the least effort to spend public resources on scattered settlements.
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– Fails completely
MDG deputy leader Rokkan Iversen tells Dagbladet that the party has repeatedly been in contact with NRK to get them to change the voting machine.
– Here NRK fails completely. Their social mission is to inform people about what the parties stand for, which is absolutely crucial for a functioning democracy. Nevertheless, they refuse to change our position on district policy – even though we refer to issues we have voted for in the Storting and our adopted policy. It is at best plain work, says the MDG top.
– The result is that NRK deliberately misinforms the users of the voting machine. Failure to change this may affect the election result. It is unethical and voters deserve to know the facts about our policies. NRK has a subjective interpretation of our district policy that does not correspond to reality. It can not go unchallenged.
Here you can take Dagbladet’s election machine:
NRK defends the assessment
Kyrre Nakkim is acting head of NRK’s political department and defends the placement of MDG. He points out that the statement MDG responds to is not an individual case that can be quickly checked in the party program.
– Questions like this are more general and the parties are thus placed on the basis of an overall analysis of points of view. In this assessment, we must also look at the position of the parties against each other. We have discussed the position with all parties, and in the vast majority of cases we agree, Nakkim writes in an e-mail to Dagbladet.
– The district claim is about the distribution of resources between city and country. NRK has emphasized a number of points in the MDGs’ policy that prioritize resources for the cities. One example is that they have major urban investments in transport policy and are cutting back on several road projects. In this area, other parties can argue that their proposal in NTP will lead to far more use of resources in the districts, Nakkim concludes.
Dagbladet has gained access to the e-mail correspondence between NRK and MDG, where NRK also highlights MDG’s policy on public transport / fuel, commuter deductions and the desire for densification as justification for the placement.
New measurement: – The impossible can happen
– Only about highways?
Kriss Rokkan Iversen is disappointed that NRK and highlights a number of cases such as increased free funds for the municipalities, better recruitment to the GP scheme, better air ambulance services and more visible and present police in the districts.
The MDG policy should simply be given a different place in the voting machine, the MDG deputy leader emphasizes.
– It seems that NRK thinks district policy is only about motorways. It certainly does not, says Rokkan Iversen.
When it comes to the city investment in the transport packages that Kyrre Nakkim points out, the MDG top believes NRK is simply wrong. MDG has a far stronger district profile than the government’s proposal for the National Transport Plan (NTP).
– We are cutting and downscaling a total of 36 major road projects – the vast majority of these highways are in or through cities. We propose to take only two road projects in the whole of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark from NTP. Instead, we use 30 billion earmarked for the North Norway line, 11 billion extra for county roads, 8 billion more for coastal transport and 3 billion for a massive electric aircraft investment in the north, says Rokkan Iversen.
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