NOS

NOS   (Media)
Formation	29 May 1969
Founder	The Netherlands
Headquarters	Hilversum, North-Holland, Netherlands
Leader	Marcel Gelauff
Type	•  television •  limited hangout •  propaganda
Staff	600
Founder of	Nieuwsuur
A Dutch state broadcaster with some questionable segments.

The Nederlandse Omroep Stichting or commonly called the NOS is one of the broadcasting organisations in the Netherlands. It has a special statutory obligation by law to make programmes for the three Dutch public television channels and the Dutch public radio services on the only 3 Dutch TV-channels viewable for free on cable and online in similar role to the BBC and ARTE. Nieuwsuur is their main current affairs program.

Background

The NOS has the highest ratings (with 35-45% daily of all households yearly) of all broadcasters and operates similar to the BBC hosting debates and interviews with politicians and consultants. Nieuwsuur is one of their main programs. Although a serious European player with geo-political limited hangouts in investigative journalism, it lacks an English page.

MIVD

In 2012, former head Hans Laroes revealed a foreign correspondent was blackmailed and pressured by the MIVD to give information to a Dutch MIVD-officer. After mediation between the station and Dutch Minister of Defence Henk Kamp, both names were never revealed.

Nieuwsuur

One of their few English articles was the coordinated press statement that the AIVD "infiltrated" the Russian "Cozy Bear"-group, allegedly showing hacking in the Democratic Party in 2018. This was during the same time Rian van Rijbroek and Willem Vermeend were touring congresses and giving lectures calling for action against "Russian threats" including Kaspersky.

Nord Stream

In June 2023, a Die Zeit, ARD and NOS report by current affairs program Nieuwsuur revealed the US Central Intelligence Agency warned Ukraine not to blow up the Nord Steam Pipeline in 2022. The Americans did so after they had received an alarming report from the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service or MIVD. That agency had heard about Ukrainian plans for an upcoming attack from a source in Ukraine. The report mentioned that "The planned sabotage in June was cancelled three months before it did go through, but in September the pipeline was still blown up. The scenario was nearly identical to that exposed by the MIVD three months earlier." Dutch media reported that - according to insiders - the Dutch Minister Defence Kasja Ollogren, and Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Minister Wopke Hoekstra of Foreign Affairs, were informed by the MIVD and subsequent CIA briefings.

“In March, when the possible involvement of Ukraine was discussed, Minister Ollongren emphasized that the support that that country received from the Netherlands and Europa had nothing to do with the question as to whether Ukraine was involved in the bombing of the Nord Stream.

The plan, which was intercepted by the MIVD, put General Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine's highest-ranking military officer, in charge of the operation. A small team of divers was said to plan to carry out the sabotage from a yacht. Zelensky was said not to have been in the loop.

Last week, The Washington Post reported about this plan based on leaked Pentagon documents, stating that the information had been shared by a European intelligence service. As it turns out, that was the MIVD.”
Eelco Bosch van Rosenthal,  Ben Meindertsma,  NOS (12 June 2023) 

Covid-19

During the Dutch Covid 19 riots in January 2021, the police was accused by protesters to have used "actors" placed between rioters in the city of Amsterdam, to instigate violent actions and steer public opinion. During the riots, Nieuwsuur was the only media source to request officials in the justice department if minors (starting from the age of 11) participating in the protests should be sentenced as adults.

The chief inspector of the police unit in The Hague gave an interview from his office which revealed the office to be home to a banner reading "The NOS is Fake news", a common opinion of the protesters. The chief defended the banner by saying "it was taken from protestors" with the banner removed on the same night shortly after the interview, with the image being removed from the police their twitter account. The unit didn't care to explain why evidence - as the banner would been called normally - ended up all the way there instead of being placed in a safe.

The police unit of The Hague put a "NOS = Fake News"-banner in their office, and removed it only after multiple TV-stations had noticed it in their live interview with an inspector.

 

Quotes by NOS

Page	Quote	Date	Source
Germany/Public broadcasting	“In March, when the possible involvement of Ukraine was discussed, Minister Ollongren emphasized that the support that that country received from the Netherlands and Europa had nothing to do with the question as to whether Ukraine was involved in the bombing of the Nord Stream. The plan, which was intercepted by the MIVD, put General Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine's highest-ranking military officer, in charge of the operation. A small team of divers was said to plan to carry out the sabotage from a yacht. Zelensky was said not to have been in the loop. Last week, The Washington Post reported about this plan based on leaked Pentagon documents, stating that the information had been shared by a European intelligence service. As it turns out, that was the MIVD.”	12 June 2023
Nord Stream/Sabotage	“In March, when the possible involvement of Ukraine was discussed, Minister Ollongren emphasized that the support that that country received from the Netherlands and Europa had nothing to do with the question as to whether Ukraine was involved in the bombing of the Nord Stream. The plan, which was intercepted by the MIVD, put General Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine's highest-ranking military officer, in charge of the operation. A small team of divers was said to plan to carry out the sabotage from a yacht. Zelensky was said not to have been in the loop. Last week, The Washington Post reported about this plan based on leaked Pentagon documents, stating that the information had been shared by a European intelligence service. As it turns out, that was the MIVD.”	12 June 2023
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer	“It is not likely. But he is unpredictable and consumed by resentment and rancour. So, you should not exclude the possibility that he'll be creating a problem between Kaliningrad and Belarus. That area is the gateway from Western Europe to the Baltic countries. If he closes that passage, it would be a reason for war for NATO.”	24 February 2022	NOS
Zeit	“In March, when the possible involvement of Ukraine was discussed, Minister Ollongren emphasized that the support that that country received from the Netherlands and Europa had nothing to do with the question as to whether Ukraine was involved in the bombing of the Nord Stream. The plan, which was intercepted by the MIVD, put General Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine's highest-ranking military officer, in charge of the operation. A small team of divers was said to plan to carry out the sabotage from a yacht. Zelensky was said not to have been in the loop. Last week, The Washington Post reported about this plan based on leaked Pentagon documents, stating that the information had been shared by a European intelligence service. As it turns out, that was the MIVD.”	12 June 2023

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