Unheard of Netherlands increases mistrust
As a public broadcaster, Ongehoord Nederland should allow different voices to be heard. ON does not, argues Harry Hol.
I had a unique first acquaintance with Ongehoord Nederland. In 2020, the broadcaster started making programs on YouTube. One opinion, by former MP Ybeltje Berckmoes, left a certain Ronald Heister empty about a wide range of conspiracy theories. For example, vaccines would be provided with microchips and Microsoft would like to make with ‘computerized people’. According to Heister, the United Nations actually want to form a simple communist dictatorship with their sustainability goals.
A literal stream of nonsense, which was nowhere contradicted by Berckmoes. Instead, Ybeltje himself even waved Georgewell’s book 1984 at the camera, pledging that the simple dictatorship of Bill Gates and the UN was really inevitable.
I keep a YouTube video showing Heister’s nonsense. A day after, I received a threatening email from Berckmoes: I had to remove my video under penalty of a penalty of 5000 euros per day. The broadcaster of the unheard sound wanted to silence me.
eat a lot of meat
Two years later, Ungehoord Nederland is still not open to criticism. When ON received a cut on their budget for not complying with the journalistic code of the NPO, ON founder Arnold Karskens tweeted that “is a frontal attack on press freedom”. Karskens rejects all criticism. He does say, however, “that it is before even the beginning that with our entry there are others starting and being part of the public system.”
The problem is, ON doesn’t do this. It’s great when they start others and let people with different interpretations speak and that learns. What Ongehoord Nederland does, however, is talk to their viewers.
If ON were to carry out its own mission, it could make a lot of noise that shouldn’t be spoken right now. People who, for example, cannot change the fact that the climate is changing. Who want to drive 130, eat a lot of meat, turn on the air conditioning all summer and go on a flying holiday four times a year. Why wouldn’t you want to let that sound be heard? There are now people who think that way. You shouldn’t shut up about that.
awkward truth
Instead, Ongehoord Nederland argues that climate change is not an issue, or at least not a problem. it relieves the viewer of responsibility.
The same person who would like to go on a flight holiday four times a year, according to ON, should not worry about it at all. There is no climate problem, says ON, so go to sleep. With the air conditioning on 10. with the nitrogen discussion. The literal truth is done as ‘fake’ and their peasant viewers can be relieved: “Ongehoord Nederland says it’s not my fault!”
The reason is obvious. These others don’t seem so sympathetic from the perspective of the facts. The display then becomes a mirror. The viewers are developed with the fact that their actions do have consequences. The target group of ON does not want to hear what it really is. They want confirmation of their gut feeling.
It is not surprising that ON and Forum for Democracy get along so well. After all, FvD works in the same way: instead of proving the problems to FvD that they don’t exist, or at least are the fault of the FvD voter.
ON left Thierry Baudet without any refutation about the planned plans of the World Economic Forum (WEF) that a communist dictatorship without property would want. “You own nothing and become happy,” WEF president Klaus Schwab is said to have said, according to Baudet. That that is total nonsense (which I showed in another video) is irrelevant to Ongehoord Nederland. Their viewers want to hear this, so it is delivered without any contradiction.
ON denies facts
And that’s ON’s problem: they don’t care about unheard of beginnings. This public broadcaster denies the facts experienced by its target group. ON isolates a group of Dutch people from reality and increases their mistrust in science and politics.
Personally, I don’t think this is a task for the Dutch Public Broadcasting Service.
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