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– When Lindmo invites a friend on stage, it is good to inform about the connection. She did too. What is strange, however, all the time there is a debate, is that no critical questions are asked. This gets even weirder when they first inform you that they are acquaintances, Eva Sannum tells Dagbladet.
Public relations and communications veteran Sannum makes up one third of the weekly media podcast “Tut & Mediekjør.”
Criticize «Lindmo»
After Friday’s “Lindmo”, podcast trio Sannum, Svein Tore Bergestuen and Christian Marstrander were featured in a Facebook post and criticized both the profiled host and NRK for lax questioning.
Among other things, they ask critical questions about the understanding of the role of Bonde Tusvik, the responsibility of expression, ethics or popular customs in the podcast “Tusvik og Tønne”.
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The criticism comes after comedian Sigrid Bonde Tusvik posed on “Lindmo” with her sister Ane Tusvik Bonde to talk about family and her relationship with the sister. Anne Lindmo introduces Bonde Tusvik as “my good friend.”
“Shameful and ruthless”
Beforehand, there was tension over whether the comedian should talk about the debate that arose after famed manager Erland Bakke took a hard line with her and fellow comedian Lisa Tønne in a post on Dagbladet.
Bakke slipped because they, on the “Tusvik og Tønne” podcast, came in with very little flattering mentions of Ari Behn. Later, the Behn family spokesman came on the scene and told Dagbladet that the podcast talk about the late Behn was “shameful and ruthless.”
The comedians themselves have regretted the subsequent statement, but have said little about the criticism they have received, including from the “Tut & Mediekjør” podcast and Dagbladet’s cultural editor Sigrid Hvidsten about the disclaimer and lack of understanding of the roles.
– Blame Dagbladet
It’s enough
On Friday, Sigrid Bonde Tusvik once again apologized for what she and Tønne said about Behn, but Anne Lindmo did not ask questions about the principled debate that followed, including the ethical rules for podcasts. That makes Sannum react.
– A critical question would be to ask Tusvik why he says something quite different on “Lindmo” than he says on his own podcast, where he actually blames Dagbladet for this becoming a case, he says.
When inviting guests who don’t want to speak on a current topic, editors must find a way to say why it is not being discussed, Sannum believes.
– The driving rules of the concept should focus on the viewer, he says, and continues:
– The viewer sits down and wonders if a public relations plan has been prepared between two friends. It is certainly not the case, but the fact that you are left wondering about it is in itself very messy.
– Disappointing
Sannum says that he thinks Bonde Tusvik is a good and skilled guest, and that “Lindmo” is a good show with a professionally strong host.
– Therefore, the lack of critical questions is disappointing. I wonder if it was some good journalistic craft from Anne Lindmo this Friday night. And if there is no one in the NRK system, in all the time that passed between the recording and the publication, who questions this? That seems strange to me, says Sannum.
Counterattacks against the celebrity manager
I wanted to make a portrait of a sister
NRK’s ”Lindmo” project manager Trine Sollie tells Dagbladet that she understands that there are different expectations for interviews on “Lindmo.”
– We chose to invite Bonde Tusvik and her sister Tusvik Bonde because we wanted to do a sister portrait, Sollie writes in an email to Dagbladet.
– The statements referred to in the media podcast are a few weeks ago, they have already been commented on, criticized and apologized in other places, he continues.
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According to Sollie, the primary responsibility for expression, ethics and role understanding was not the goal of Friday’s interview.
– We welcome such a conversation, but it will probably work even better in a different format than ours. I understand that Sannum wants a more critical interview and we take that into account. We had made the agreement with the sisters a long time ago. When the subject of Ari Behn’s comments comes up, it’s natural for us to bring it up in our interview. I can deny that this is a well-run PR stunt, he writes.
This is not the first time the talk show “Lindmo” has been criticized. Last year, law professor Olav Torvund was very critical when Haddy Njie visited the show. She believed that “NRK allows you to have a non-controversial conversation together with Anne Lindmo as part of her book launch.”
