Bas Paternotte

{{Short description|Dutch journalist (born 1976)}}

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Bastiaan Paschier (Bas) Paternotte (born 1 September 1976 in Drachten) is a Dutch political reporter for the blogs ThePostOnline.nl (formerly DeJaap.nl){{in lang|nl}} [http://www.thepostonline.nl/author/bas-paternotte/ Profile on ThePostOnline.nl] and GeenStijl and formerly for the magazine HP/De Tijd.{{cite web | url=http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/06/201162112350580926.html | title=The legal boundaries of Dutch insults | work=Al Jazeera | date=June 22, 2011 | accessdate=July 26, 2011 | author=Poort, David| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110701041520/http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/06/201162112350580926.html| archivedate= 1 July 2011 | url-status= live}} and a political commentator on the PowNed radio programme Echte Jannen{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.powned.tv/programmas/echtejannen.html PowNed : Echte Jannen] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808213312/http://www.powned.tv/programmas/echtejannen.html |date=August 8, 2011 }} (segment: Haagse Geluid met Bas Paternotte) on Radio 1.{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.radio1.nl/contents/20054-haagse-geluid-met-bas-paternotte Haagse Geluid met Bas Paternotte]

He used to be a political journalist for the Dutch Metro newspaper.