DE STANDAARD AND VLAAMS BELANG

By reporting them without any scrutiny. De Standaard normalises political party Vlaams Belang's Islamophobic positions.

Journalism should hold politicians and public figures to account by putting their views in context, not just leaving quotes such as "the Koran on an equal level with Mein Kampf" from a recent interview with new fraction leader Sam van Rooy. Someone who reads this piece would easily assume that the statements made by Van Rooy are simply the truth, because they are given no opposing or different information or opinion. ⁠⠀
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It is 2020. Journalists are not medieval heralds. ⁠⠀⁠⠀