Here in Norway the state media leaders openly admit that their coverage of American politics is guided by personal preferences and political agendas.
Our state media is called NRK. The statements from former NRK chief Thor Gjermund Eriksen and the former head of the Broadcasting Council Per Edgar Kokkvold about their coverage of the American presidential election in 2016 are quite shocking.
We are witnessing a systematic manipulation of the public conversation.
The consequence is that the Norwegian people largely have had their perception of American politics shaped by a one-sided, controlled narrative.
You can watch the full recording from the meeting of the Broadcasting Council at Marienlyst on 20 October 2016 here: https://t.co/xWznYAuSIj
Read the full report from the meeting here: https://t.co/QT1gM1Uygm
I see the leftists who threw evidence-based medicine and safeguarding out of the window, causing acute harm to women, gay rights and vulnerable young people, have embraced a new strategy of yelling 'fascist' twice as loudly at those who tried to warn them. Good luck with that.
You can keep telling yourself this, but you're simply wrong. I'm a left-leaning liberal who's fiercely anti-authoritarian, and if you couldn't deduce that from my work you haven't understood a word of it.
I'm not an ideologue. I mistrust ideologies. I've never met an ideologue who wasn't prepared to deny a bit of inconvenient truth to keep their world view intact and I include ideologies with which I find myself in broad sympathy. On the other hand, I am an idealist. I believe in human beings. We are undeniably capable of terrible acts, but the evidence is that we are astoundingly collaborative and mutually supportive, especially when times are hard.
My values haven't changed; what's changed is the political landscape. What was once my natural home (a pragmatic centre-left party focused on dealing with economic disparity, championing social liberalism and equal rights) is now dominated by an illiberal, identity-based strain of politics I consider elitist, harmful and out of touch with the day-to-day concerns of regular people, particularly women (and I've still lived more than half of my life as a non-wealthy woman, and some of that time was spent in poverty).
There are women with whom I make common cause in the TERF wars I disagree with on other things. Within obvious limits (sucking up to literal Nazis) I don't particularly care about their personal politics. The reality is that there's currently an assault on women's rights unparalleled in my lifetime, and it's coming from both left and right. If ever there was a time for women across the political spectrum to come together, it is now.
Dana White Just Blew the Lid Off Democrats' Obama Playbook Strategy
“She [Kamala] talks a lot about the need for change and her hope for the future. Hope and change—does that sound familiar?”
“She can use the old Obama playbook, but she's not Obama, and she is no agent of change. She is the sitting Vice President of the United States right now. What she hopes is that voters will focus on the future because she doesn't want us looking at the last four years to see what we really need to change.
As they always say, "somethings never change"!!!
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Giving thanks to Jonathan Young for all the music. This year I couldn’t stop listening to Fight the Tide. #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/WvrAhbpMAp @JonathanYMusic
@HedgehunterGME You should lead with the fact that you were licking his lollipop for months; enabling all of the behaviour you’re criticizing. And yes, I recall warning you personally… probably in the realm of.. say a hundred of times?