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Wilders accuses the Telegraaf of censorshipThursday 27 May 2010 PVV leader Geert Wilders has accused the Telegraaf newspaper of censorship for refusing to place two cartoons in the special election edition being published on Monday. The PVV has two pages of the paper to fill and wanted to publish two drawings by cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot, arrested in 2008 on charges of publishing work which discriminates against Muslims and inciting hatred. The Telegraaf said in a statement both the paper's editor and publisher felt the cartoons were 'unnecessarily offensive'. 'There is no place for this in our paper and therefore not in our election special,' the paper said. © DutchNews.nl
I think the Telegraaf was correct in determining not to run the drawings. In my view, robust politicing is fine. Anything with racial overtones contained within is certainly not. By Henk Luf | May 27, 2010 12:21 PM The teleggraaf is exersising its freedome of speach Mr. Wilders By Al | May 27, 2010 12:38 PM Yeah, Geert, explain to me why censoring the Koran is "good" but censoring you is "bad"? Freedom of speech, Blondie, means having to put up with what you disagree with too, unfortunately. I mean, apparently we're supposed to put up with you... By CW | May 27, 2010 4:16 PM
It's government that cannot trespass on your rights! By eslaporte | May 27, 2010 7:38 PM Mr Wilders seeks to control what the media prints? Is anyone still saying it's wrong to compare him (and his desire to control the media for propaganda purposes) to certain other historical figures? By osita | May 27, 2010 7:55 PM Considering the fact that De Telegraaf has been consistently racist and "ethnically provocative" for as long as I've lived in the Netherlands (35 years) it's rather fatuous that they've suddenly discovered that Nekschot is 'unnecessarily offensive'. I wonder what the back-story is. It's got naff all to do with freedom of speech in any event... By Bill | May 27, 2010 10:10 PM
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Wilkders is desperate as the "con" is not working on the Dutch population. Solution: create a scandal and then scream "freedom", which is ironic from the head of a party that has only one official member......
By DvdH | May 27, 2010 12:02 PM