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Telling half the truth | Britt van Uem | TEDxDenHelder


the storm of January 18 who remembers
that is still true during that storm
January 10 there were a number of deaths
mourn
similarly in the enschede and it was there
namely that happened in the vicinity of
the choir bags park and the gamble ate away
in Enschede so that was then well done
there was an oak on a Volkswagen polo
and in that Volkswagen Polo is a man
62 years old
that man who died instantly
at least that is what the message says on the
website of the regional newspaper
yes and my girlfriend who lives in
singapore and there it is 9 hours later and
it did not storm there but that
really worried if everything goes well with
me and my husband
we live on that goolkatenweg
today
I look even stronger from my room
out on that Cossack park and I see that
look and break that 100 years there
ago have been planted
I am a journalist and I am at that
moment concerned with an article about the
keys blazers and carnival association
food plates but good from me strongly
isolated work room
I do not really have a view of the drama
that is not even fifty meters from mine
house performs
so I think yes then I have to
Let’s have a look at what’s going on
the hand is with my own eyes so I walk
to the outside and I note that
No oak tree there really is only one
fracture
he was taken off the road the pieces
sawn that car that has been towed away
I look good again and I think of you
car so no Volkswagen polo at all
so a toyota
I think I’ll leave with that for a while
traffic controller to talk
just hear what exactly
with that man
Herr how that went is so that
traffic controller who says yes we have
tried to resuscitate that man
but unfortunately it does not help anymore
so no he was not killed instantly
the news is on the street
they often say you can sit inside or
do not you think so
two weeks later I want to go on the street myself
when I earn something in the program
you reveal
I get as a freelance reporter
for such a piece as for example about the
keys blazers
I am there for about four hours
busy
and there I get 55 euros for one
program leads to a lot of reign
but actually does not change that much
the situation of me and me and mine
colleagues
the chief editor of that newspaper
Of course that program also has
seen and who responds as follows
the programs voice makers on radio 1
through those stories that britt of your
write with her freelance colleagues
are actually a bit the yes the
simple stories and that too
that way rewarded with 13 cents per
word
so that is actually sufficient for me
kind of reporting while the colleagues
she goes on in permanent employment
that same program on radio 1
yes that lee actually write more the
the heavy load-bearing stories and they become
therefore better paid for it
yes in 4 hours
she thinks that is a very long time
to be engaged in such an article
back then to those storms for that
message that actually back to that
storm that message about the store
which is of course the next day
the wreath and that consists of random
quotes from aid workers and
spectators and I know the story
is of course a little mustard after the
meal
because the storm is already on course
lie down
I’m actually worried more
about that story from that to a blog
was the year when it goes
actually with it
no that story is actually only
placed when that storm has blown over
moreover, the article is also added
with half
shortened because it is about one
expiration date is when I get there
once over think that we do not hunt
light if I would yes a piece
able to write
Maybe I did that when I was one
better honorarium
I might have had a piece
written about that 62-year-old man who
by bad luck by a tree for mine
door by a bonus yes
I had passed me I had I had
tribes finished because we’re that man
there was why he had there
I wrote a nice story about yes
about that tree fence means pretty nice
because your old something or perhaps a
story about
about the Cossack park the first
cemetery in enschede
but not good while I am
I myself impossible with wreath
made true by that whole story
one and a half million viewers
looked at
yes, of course , there is no colleague in it
permanent service that it dares to contact
to take up with me, let alone me
support
and from that moment on I start to repeat
think about my marginal existence as
region
reporter, of course, I find myself
much more than 13 cents per word and
I think I should get the same
if the colleagues in permanent employment that
do the same work
I am still curious and
concerned
but in recent years the
regional newspapers are less and less serious
I mean the first one
the task of the journalist is to do it
checking the power has gone
to pass on uncritically
information
hey and that will be another time
supplied by an army
communication and PR employees mean
that used to be the case when I was there
you already had to do what you did
also with large companies and
government agencies with information officers
but nowadays each has itself
respecting
artist footballer
pub owners who all have one
communication rate
that those who hours they have that
advises are how they feel
be able to profile and how she is
to be able to do social media
yes but also how they correct their mistakes and
failures
can get rid of in a sticky
he says nothing of the Liberian
quarter
he looks like a regional reporter
Approximately also arrive at it
work for which you are educated then state
you soon hit a wall of van half
truths fake news public
confidentiality
let alone that you want to find out or
that chairman of that
housing association or alderman
yes or maybe that chairman of
that carnival association of the horn
blazers
telling hard lies but I have to
say
the management of the newspaper that is also
not really waiting for critical
reporting means no the region
reporter is actually not yes
forced but deemed to
constructive is already positive to report
about our own region because otherwise we are
as a medium not binding
we lose even more subscribers and
viewers that loss
actually since I started he was
that only increased to 50%
with regional newspapers only
Read rigorous reorganisations
cuts
yes the publishers in the
shareholders profit
I wonder what it still is
want to go after those facts
I mean I forget reality
forgotten objectivity that are real
terms and the other era meant
to the newspaper and the TV news
creditworthy while
a few weeks or even years later that
sheer nonsense turns out to be
My conclusion is then as I am then
be honest with myself why am
I am not against your reader viewer
as I am forced to do except
freedom can tell why I come there
then not around for out
for example, which of you is
interviewed for a newspaper vs and knocked
that always means disciples no no no
a point is that very much
people who want to be interviewed or
someone in the vicinity knows who
has ever been in the newspaper
yes very often than yes it was
something different but that knows
of course also that reality
much more nuanced and much
more complicated than the bite-sized
chunks in which the fish
is packaged a few days later
and even if you edit the oven from the
new york times or all fact checkers
I’m still thinking about the case
Therefore I argue here
for a new form of journalism
and that actually goes back to the
great master
oh here it is Father of History
he started with that I decided so
back to that to that beautiful
telling stories that is mine
conclusion of that new form of
journalism half truth that is
at least clear and transparent and
it may sound negative, but it does
it is not at all
because in the end you want to be here
today only
to be entertained with beautiful stories anyway
it’s called I’m going to be british
I’m going to tell nice story like
it then a bit
not quite that you are half the truth
is that it is still nice thank you
[Applause]
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