- PFU constrict women’s freedom of expression in Norway – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Although there were critical remarks that it is unacceptable that the media responds to criticism in a way that inhibits the further debate, there was a unanimous Press Council which today ruled that NRK did not violate good press when they got a porn actress to portray Kari Jaquesson in a humor element in “The Social Security Office.”

– Severe

It was Kvinnefronten who with Kari Jaquesson blessing complained sketch into PFU, which treated it in its meeting earlier today.

– we think it’s serious that “The Social Security” can not field the Press Complaints Commission, but taking with us that the program has been criticized in the Broadcasting Council and the likesetillingsombud Sunniva Ørstavik says PIV Teisbo in Kvinnefronten Dagbladet.

– It is sad that PFU simply dismisses revenge aspect of porn sketch as a misunderstanding. It has been clearly demonstrated in the aftermath of view – not least in the NRK describes as “the unfortunate Dagsnytt 18-occurrence” presenter Thomas Seltzer – that there was an aspect of revenge in the production of this sketch, said Teisbo.

High threshold

Jaquesson was parodied having gone public and demanded the prosecution of NRK for a former porn skit, which state channel ordered a pornographic film producer in the United States.

The sketch, where the 23-year-old porn actor Chloe Michele plays a character named “Kari Jack-off-son”, has previously been criticized in the Broadcasting Council, although also there fell on that such satire is within NRK mission.

For PFU was crucial that weft was put into a context where they discussed satire boundaries, and that press ethics in general will have a high threshold for cracking down on satire.

Continuing as before

Seltzers defenses sketch in radio program covered hard outcomes against Jaquesson, something he himself has written that he was not well enough prepared because he was in the United States and had just woken up to the threat of police and demand that he should ask for forgiveness.

Today is Thomas Seltzer pleased with the outcome of PFU case.

– It feels good with a unanimous acquittal of the only serious advice for such in Norway. We in the newsroom our continuing as before, writes Seltzer in a comment on Dagbladet.

Teisbo mean in turn that PFU helps to narrow the space for women’s expression in Norway.

– It does something to women’s freedom of expression when they have to expect to even be sexual as consequence of the phenomena critical to the sexualisation of the public, and it is regarded as an “approved” response, she says.