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Sidsel Wold, never to be confused by facts

by Kafka • April 11, 2012 • 15 Comments

As expected, there is a lot of praise for Günter Grass’s missive in rhyme against Israel’s imagined plans to annihilate Iran with a pre-emptive nuclear strike. One interesting perspective comes from Sidsel Wold, for several years the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s…

by Kafka • May 31, 2011 • 5 Comments

Sidsel Wold is triumphant these days. After her jury nullification acquittal by the Broadcasting Council and a flurry of awards and nominations, she obviously feels she can let loose on the home stretch. Her latest rant is an attempt at…

by Kafka • May 8, 2011 • 1 Comment

Nobody has the right to harass or abuse Sidsel Wold (or anyone else). And anyone who does is doing a disservice to the legitimate criticism she (and anyone else) deserves. It’s not just a matter of civility, it’s a matter of constructive…

by admin • April 13, 2011 • 0 Comments

During the recent SKUP convention, one of the topics was the Norwegian media’s coverage of the Middle East. IDF’s Avital Leibovich showed up to present her side of the story. NRK’s Sidsel Wold elected to stay away, saying she would…

by admin • March 26, 2011 • 0 Comments

Hell holds no fury like that from which love has turned and no fury like that of woman scorned. NRK correspondent to the Middle East (mainly Israel) Sidsel Wold has repeatedly been accused of being biased against Israel. In the…

by admin • March 22, 2011 • 6 Comments

This site is by no means unused to bias in Norwegian media; including NRK. The program we now have come across, by NRK’s Sidsel Wold, is one of the most biased on record. Document tipped us on this one. If…

by admin • March 15, 2011 • 0 Comments

In Norway, the short-cut to success lies in Israelbashing. Bash away, and you’ll do ok. Mads Gilbert bashed away, and he did ok. Håkon Gullvåg bashes away, and he did ok. Kåre Willoch bashes away, and he does ok. Which…

by admin • December 22, 2010 • 0 Comments

Dishonest Reporter Award 2010 lists NRK (State broadcasting authority) journalist Sidsel Wold among “other dishonorable mentions”, for “haranguing Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld during an interview, compelling the Israeli professor to fisk his own interview“. In more general terms, recognition for the most…

by admin • October 23, 2010 • 0 Comments

The surprising fact is not that the Israeli MFA should find the Norwegian media corps biased against Israel – it is. What is surprising is how they could have thought anything else, and for such a long time. But such…

by admin • August 19, 2010 • 0 Comments

NRK’s Sidsel Wold and film director Vibeke Løkkeberg are both known critics of Israel. Now they are pretending to disagree on minor issues in order to be allowed a debate where they can agree in public. Sidsel Wold is NRK’s…

by admin • August 14, 2010 • 0 Comments

In february 2010 NRK`s correspondent to Israel, Sidsel Wold, reported at length on how Israel was planning to construct a museum on top of an an ancient Muslim graveyard. It has now become clear that the graveyard was just a…

by admin • June 28, 2010 • 0 Comments

The screenshot above is from an article by journalist Sidsel Wold, the State Broadcasting Authority(NRK)’s foreign correspondent to Israel. The subheading makes the following erroneous claim: “For the first time an Israeli politician has received lifeguards for protection against other…

by admin • June 27, 2010 • 1 Comment

Yesterday this site voiced the hope that one of our Norwegian correspondents to Israel – NRK’s Sidsel Wold, Aftenposten Jørgen Lohne and Dagsavisen’s Roger Hercz – would find it in himself to pose a critical question to our ambassador –…

by admin • June 19, 2010 • 0 Comments

Sidsel Wold is NRK’s correspondent to the Middle East, which for all practical purposes means Israel. In the article “Taboo Jew-conflict rises to surface” (Tabaulagt jødekonflikt til overflaten) Wold writes: Like apartheid – This is very sad. It reminds me…

by admin • June 14, 2010 • 0 Comments

Sidsel Wold is NRK’s correspondent to the Middle East. Since she is terrified of the Janjaweed however, Sudan is off. And since the gulf states are despotic regimes where information is hard to come by and women are treated like…

by admin • May 22, 2010 • 2 Comments

NRK’s Sidsel Wold’s broadcast on the Palestinian infrastructure development of Rawabi has, after being on both radio and television, made it to NRK’s web-site here: City of hope for a future Palestine. This is old news, this site reported on…

by admin • May 15, 2010 • 0 Comments

Finnish Tundra Tabloids suggests that with Norwegian State Broadcaster NRK’s interview with Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld, we are seeing a media-scandal of proportions deserving of the term “NRKgate”. In the post Is NRK biased against Israel, we found that the…

by admin • May 2, 2010 • 4 Comments

April 30th: Editor of Norge.IDAG Bjarte Ystebø points out how Norwegian journalists in the mainstream media are disregarding how NRK’s correspondent to Jerusalem, Sidsel Wold, appears to have fabricated an interview with Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld. This is particularly evident…

by admin • April 22, 2010 • 0 Comments

Olmert is under investigation for corruption. Norwegian journalists Laila Ø. Bakken and Sidsel Wold are following the case closely. From the comfort and safety and the hotel bars in Jerusalem. Somalia? No, they are not going to Somalia. Sudan? No,…

by admin • April 17, 2010 • 0 Comments

Finnish Tundra Tabloids has referred to Sidsel Wold’s interview with Manfred Gerstenfeld, where the former answers her own questions and the latter only gets to speak for twenty seconds, as a”spike in high profile instances of ridiculous journalistic tomfoolery“. This is…

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