Geert Wilders has a love-hate relationship with the press, the Volkskrant writes. The PVV leader is like the prettiest girl in the class, scathing one minute, coy the next. Or it is all a clever ploy?

‘Wilders hardly ever gives interviews, his party refuses to engage in discussion but dominates the political debate from the barricaded wing of the parliament building via Twitter. Journalists are ‘cowards’, and ‘sewer rats’ and PVV MP Dion Graus even suggested a ‘press police’ to curb the ‘leftist press’, the paper writes.

Ignore or expose?

‘The PVV has become an impregnable fortress for the press’, the paper quotes Nel Ruigrok, researcher for the Dutch News Monitor. Meanwhile, Wilders launches one controversial idea after another leaving a bevy of frustrated journalists knocking on his door in vain.

Many journalists have a hard time coping with Wilders. Ignore or expose? ‘We help spread Wilders’ propaganda’, a columnist for De Pers complains.

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