Radicalization, Homemade

The rise of MP Geert Wilders‘ right-wing populist party Partij voor de Vrijheid might increase Muslim radicalization. The first and most elaborated point of the PVV’s manifesto, which is titled ‘Nederland weer van ons’, calling upon the Dutch people to...

Review: All Governments Lie … And Mainstream Media Are Complicit

Fred Peabody’s directorial premiere spells out the mainstream media’s failure to hold power to account – in capital letters. 1973. Richard Nixon stands behind a lectern in the White House. With a firm voice, he says: ‘In all of my...

“In the nineties there was not enough pressure”

With the commercialization of the internet in the early 1990s, the pace of communication quickened, deeply affecting journalism. Fokke Obbema, journalist at de Volkskrant, experienced it firsthand. Mr. Obbema, you do lots of investigative reporting, which involves going into the...