Politiken – Amerikanske tilstande

Journalisming

Posted on 2022-01-062022-01-06 by greg nagan

Ladies and gentleman, the balanced Danish media: Do you remember the pictures? A year ago wild and angry Trump supporters stormed the American capitolAngelica Schou-Petersen, DR.dk, Jan 6 One year after the attack on America’s democracy: what’s happened since the storming of the capitol?Lillian Gjerulf Kretz, DR.dk, Jan 6 Trump’s people have put a large-scale…

Scarecrows and Tin Men

Posted on 2021-11-19 by greg nagan

In a small New England town back in the early 1980s, a group of four high school students founded a group called “Youth for Communism.” One of those bright young idiots, it does not pain me to say, was myself. Some readers might find it surprising that a confession of such stupidity causes me no…

The Inadequacy of “Enough’s Enough”

Posted on 2021-07-012021-07-01 by greg nagan

I haven’t seen any coverage of this in America (yet), but four Nordic newspapers published an open letter to China on their front pages today: Norway’s Aftenposten, Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter, Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat, and Denmark’s own Politiken. Politiken had it blaring out at the world from the top of their home page this morning: At…

Politiken Goes Coup Coup

Posted on 2021-01-052021-01-05 by greg nagan

The Politiken editorial board wants the U.S. Ambassador called in because “there’s a coup attempt in progress.” I got a breaking news alert saying so on my phone the night of January 4th. They also put out a Tweet: The text of the Tweet: “Denmark and others must speak up.” The text of the headline:…

Bracing for Democracy

Posted on 2020-11-022020-11-02 by greg nagan

Most people know the fable of the frog and scorpion. A scorpion asks a frog to carry him across the river. The frog declines. “You’d just sting me,” he explains, “and I’d die.” “Why would I sting you?” the scorpion asks. “If you die, I’ll drown.” The frog sees the logic of this. He agrees…

The Man Who Never Was

Posted on 2020-10-282020-10-28 by greg nagan

His name is Anthony Bobulinski. I conducted the following searches between 12:15 and 12:27 today, October 28. On Berlingske.dk: On B.T.: On Information.dk: On taxpayer-funded DR.dk: On Politiken.dk: On TV2News.dk And yet, on Google: In case it’s hard to read: that’s 174,000 results in about a quarter of a second. In the news tab of…