TV 2 Operation X court injunction Valsemøllen, Digi Mart USA News (Odense, Denmark): A Danish court has stopped a TV 2 program at the last minute, according to Landbrugsavisen, the agricultural newspaper that first reported the decision.
The Odense District Court reportedly prohibited TV 2 from airing its Operation X broadcast planned for Wednesday evening, titled “Mad, magt og rottelort” (“Food, Power and Rat Droppings”). The program was hosted by well-known TV 2 presenter Morten Spiegelhauer.
The ruling followed a lawsuit filed by grain producer Valsemøllen, which received partial approval from the court on Tuesday. The case concerned statements about Valsemøllen made in Operation X programs dealing with the grain handling operations of the Danish Agro group, rather than the broadcast as a whole, according to Landbrugsavisen.
Landbrugsavisen said the Odense court confirmed the decision on Wednesday morning. TV 2’s communications department told B.T.
that the broadcaster would not air Operation X on Wednesday evening.
In a written statement, Katrine Jo Andersen, editor-in-chief of TV 2 Dokumentar, said the court had barred TV 2 from discussing certain specific circumstances and critical expert assessments concerning the plaintiff without listing a series of detailed facts in the same sequence.
Andersen said the prohibition makes it impossible to broadcast Operation X in its current form. TV 2 disagrees with the ruling and will appeal it to the High Court to obtain a further assessment of the case.
The court granted Valsemøllen only a small part of its claim. It has not yet been disclosed which specific parts of the broadcast the decision concerns.
