Eero Hyvönen, the chairperson of the Council for Mass Media in Finland (JSN), says it is important to look into the claims made by the presidential hopeful.
In a keynote speech delivered after she was granted a second term at the helm of the Finns Party, Minister of Finance Riikka Purra accused the media of “fomenting mass hysteria” by digging up old statements and presenting them outside their original context.
Politicians should be able to justify their criticisms of the media, according to the chairs of the Association of Editors, the Council for Mass Media, and the Union of Journalists in Finland.