What the Danish and European media misunderstand (and misrepresent) about America, and vice versa. And other stuff.
In the course of another post I mentioned that for all the academic studies on police shootings, not a single one has shown a correlation between race and the likelihood of being shot by a cop. What’s interesting (and by “interesting” I mean “disgusting”) is that rather than allowing the record to be corrected with…
The Mollie Hemingway article that triggered my previous post lays out a lot of facts, many of them recent, that the Danish media—like the American media—still don’t seem interested in reporting. In a July 27 column from The Hill (“More willful blindness by the media on spying by Obama administration“), Jonathan Turley makes a similar…
The almost exclusively one-sided nature of American political coverage by Danish media shouldn’t only concern Danish or American conservatives. Anybody interested in the truth should be concerned when only one side of every story is told. If all you ever hear about American politics, government, culture, and economics is stuff that reflects well on the…
Given how long it took me to work through the headline of this piece from DR, I’m going to try to tighten things up as I turn to the content. Emphasis on try. In the opening section, on Beyoncé’s “Formation”: “Orkanen [Katrina] påvirkede især boligområder i New Orleans, Louisiana, med en overvejende sort befolkning, der…
An article appeared on the DR homepage on the 14th of July with the following headline: “Troede du Black Lives Matter-kampen var ny? Her er 13 numre, du skal høre for at forstå den sorte frihedskamp.” We need a simple word or phrase for things that are done carelessly and thoughtlessly on the basis of…