French election + Swedish media | 35 comments (35 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: French election + Swedish media (4.00 / 2)

I agree with all of the above, except that the state radio, and especially the state tv are a bit left of center. They are probably doing their best to be objective, but since more than 70 % of Swedish journalists are leftists (and likely even more in the state media) they don't always succeed.

Also I believe choosing Sahlin as new party chairman for the socialists will be a disaster and mean the center right will win on walk over in 2010, due to Sahlins complete sloppiness, incompetence and fascination for the kind of issues (Sweden has no culture and all Swedes are inherently racist, there are no more important issues than gay and transsexual rights etc) which will send the socialist core voters (socially conservative industrial workers) into the arms of the center right and especially our own populist Le Pen light, Sverigedemokraterna.

It's unlikely we'll end up in a situation where they are the biggest workers party though, like in France...

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by Starvid on Mon Feb 19th, 2007 at 05:34:42 PM EST
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Re: French election + Swedish media (4.00 / 2)

Most American journalists are lefties too. It doesn't make the media particularily leftist over there. Journalists are employees.

by Trond Ove on Mon Feb 19th, 2007 at 06:55:23 PM EST
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Re: French election + Swedish media (none / 0)

due to Sahlin's complete sloppiness, incompetence and fascination for the kind of issues (Sweden has no culture and all Swedes are inherently racist, there are no more important issues than gay and transsexual rights etc)

This kind of person is pretty common in USA as well. A couple of years back, I went to a meeting that was supposedly organized by the Greens of Minnesota. It lasted over three hours. Over a hour was spent debating how we could get behind the demand for reparations for slavery. I wondered how we could extract money from people whose families had not even been in USA while slavery was still practiced. Got me dirty looks.

BTW, in three hours there was NO discussion of environmental issues at all!!!

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by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Tue Feb 20th, 2007 at 01:48:55 PM EST
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French election + Swedish media | 35 comments (35 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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