– I have decided to report NRK to the Press’ Professional Committee (PFU) as a result of the fact that they have engaged in ethnic scrutiny of me, my family and my relatives, Storting representative Sandra Borch writes on her Facebook page.
She believes NRK’s ​​working method in the matter is very poor and writes that the channel shows a total lack of respect for Sami ethnicity and identity.
– In addition, for a whole day, NRK raised accusations that I am a “false Sami”, both online and in the Dagsrevyen. That this case is thus a great burden for many is indisputable, continues the parliamentary representative.
At the same time, she criticizes broadcasting manager Vibeke Fürst Haugen for refusing to meet her in debate.
– I would like to ask the broadcasting manager directly if she had approved that one of her editors had initiated an ethnic investigation of other minorities and identities, writes Borch.
Haugen has previously come out and defended the case, and she spoke on Thursday The journalist that it is in the public interest to “investigate how the criteria for standing in the Sámi Parliament’s electorate are practiced, given the Sámi Parliament’s political power”.