Watching the news programs in The Netherlands during a short stopover I am amazed at the low quality.  Not only is a lot of the news old, lagging considerably behind the changed reality, it is also limited both in depth and in scope. A few days ago, while a battle raged in Kyiv and some one hundred activists had been shot dead, the Dutch radio canceled a radio interview with me “from the front” because of “more important news”: the country had won a gold medal in Sochi. And not the first! No, it was the 19^th or 20^th, but still this was considered more important than the war right on the doorstep of the European Union.