The Dissenter · 2026-10-16 · 100 min · 13,980 words

#1320 Vibeke Ottesen: How the Media Deal with Criminal Cases

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Desenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by uh regular guest, Doctor Viva Kaotes. And today we're going to talk about How the media deal with criminal cases. So, Dr. Otessen, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to have you. Well, thank you for having me. And we were discussing how many times I've actually been on this show and the fifth time. Yes, I I think it is the fifth time. Well, it's lovely to be back. Thank you for having me.

Yeah, and it's always of course a pleasure to everyone. So um Let me start with a more general question before we get into more specific things here. I mean Just generally What is your impression of how the media tend to deal with criminal cases? I mean the way that the media uh presents criminal cases, the way the media deals with

The supposed perpetrators, uh the the way they deal with Uh the victims and so on. Well, I'm going to be my answer's obviously going to be coloured by the fact that I live in Norway.

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