After the reprehensible attack at the home of the minister of justice, Tor Mikkel Wara has many blamed on a small theater group and a performance almost nobody has seen. In the piece, which is about monitoring, høyrepopulisme and racism, pictures of the homes of several well-known politicians, næringslivsfolk and innvandringsmotstandere.
Dagbladet teateranmelder Lillian Bikset is one of the few in the country that actually have seen the “Ways of seeing” at the Black Box Theatre and can tell what the piece really shows and is all about. It is something quite different than it has been portrayed as by critics, she believes in the weekly edition of the podcast “the Last with Marie Simonsen.
How do such fake “truths” and why do so many of them? In this case, the cast several well-known politicians and samfunnstopper themselves into the debate without a clue what the piece was about. They discussed the skråsikkert on the basis of false premises and inaccurate representations of both the play and how the filming of the famous people’s house had been.
Without knowing anything about who is behind the nedtaggingen of Waras home and the attempt to kindle in his car, there were many who without hesitation directed serious accusations against a small group of frilansskuespillere and gave them the responsibility for the attack. The Oslo progress party suggested that the city council should stop the funding to the Black Box Theatre, a just ended a successful run that has been around since 1985, on the basis of the same false accusations.
for several days raged a debate based on wrong premises, not only in the comments section, but at the highest level, all the way in the government. How can it happen in little Norway?
Fake news is, incidentally, something we associate with Donald Trump, and he has had one of its worst weeks in the presidency so far. His fixes and former lawyer Michael Cohen is sentenced to three years in prison for offences relating directly to the Trump, and special investigator Robert Muellers investigation comes ever closer to the president himself.
But will Donald Trump ever be prosecuted for the offence or be impeached? During the campaign said Trump that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without that his followers would betray him. How far can the president go?
Journalist Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth has written the book “Lie. Why Trump is lying and what it does with us” and explains how a lie can save the president.
And so we wonder if santa claus should stop to ask whether there are any nice children here? Have generations of children had been traumatized by the classic question? Trebarnsfar Geir Ramnefjell and Marie Simonsen’s simply not agree, but warns against “nynissesismen”.
