news has received 42 complaints about the podcast of influencers Sophie Elise Isachsen and Fetisha Williams. Most of the complaints are reactions to the fact that news has chosen to associate Isachsen as a profile. In today’s meeting of the Broadcasting Council, the complaints caused great debate. Most of the council members had listened to the podcast with interest, and several were critical. Trude Drevland began by highlighting the episode that was about abuse. She thought it was both informative and useful. But she was also negative: – I wonder if promoting abortion and extremely sexualizing debates is what we want to motivate young people to listen to news. Drevland also pointed out the profiles’ clear commercial interests and called for clear guidelines and frameworks for the podcast. Stine Håheim said that it was naive to claim that the podcast is free of advertising when it is “full of hints to products”. – That is what I am most critical of. This puts the target group, which is young women, under greater commercial pressure. “A slightly nasty feeling” The Broadcasting Council’s chairman Snorre Valen said he got “a slightly nasty feeling”, and pointed out that much of the criticism against the podcast was “gendered”. – There is clearly a difference in the expectations we have of young women and young men in the public eye. There is an equality issue here that we are not up to, he said. Jan Bøhler said he understood well the many mothers who had complained about the podcast and pointed out that their daughters are exposed to physical pressure. – It’s about appearance, he stated. He believed that news should take the complainants more seriously. Entertainment editor Christina Rezk Resar said that news has not set strict limits on what the profiles in podcasts can talk about, within the framework of the law. – We are constantly discussing the boundaries. It’s a balancing act, and it’s not always easy, she said. She pointed out that Sophie Elise and Fetisha are two of many podcast profiles. – We hope that they can open our ears to more voices, she said. news’s ethics editor Per Arne Kalbakk stressed in his post that whether a presenter or podcast profile has their own commercial interests will not exclude them from use in news. – It will be a journalistic assessment, he said, and pointed to Therese Johaug’s expert commentator job as an example. Gutta på Skauen Photo: news Complaints about “Gutta på skauen” news has also received several complaints about the comedy series “Gutta på skauen”. They go for references to the Second World War, for humor around a serious topic, and in one case for references to Jews. Producer Per Berge Engebretsen explained that the series was fiction and not based on actual events. – We understand that not everyone likes the series, but we hope and believe that most viewers understand that it is a comedy and not storytelling, he said. He admitted that the mention of Max Manus in one episode can be interpreted negatively, but “does not agree that he is interpreted completely badly”. Gunn Cecilie Ringdal praised the series and pointed out the value of satire for understanding society. Tove Karoline Knutsen pointed out that it has been many years since the war and said it was “excellent” that news is making humor about this now. Queen Elizabeth’s death and funeral were thoroughly covered by news Photo: JACK HILL / AFP The coverage of Queen Elizabeth’s death The complaints that the Norwegian Council has received about what many believed to be over-coverage of the death and funeral of the Queen of Great Britain, and the significance it was thus given. Foreign affairs editor Sigurd Falkenberg Mikkelsen pointed to several reasons for the broad coverage: the end of an era in world history, the large gathering of international leaders and close ties to our own country and royal family. Several council members praised the coverage and believed that news would have received more complaints if the coverage had been less. Akhtar Chaudhry said the coverage was great to see but definitely “overkill”. He called for more politics around the team, saying he wanted more about them “being robbed by Britain”. Many cases A total of 162 inquiries have come to the Broadcasting Council since the last meeting. In addition to the appeals, the council was briefed on how news is working to reach young target groups, and how news is adapting to more green production and thus being able to reduce its climate footprint. At the meeting, the council will also be briefed on news’s coverage of the Baneheia case.
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Sophie Elise podcast on the Broadcasting Council – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
