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Old 10-22-2007, 12:58 PM
Bedreviter Bedreviter is offline
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Default Re: How do Americans view Europeans?

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I agree with this post to some degree. Bedreviter makes Norwegian press sound a lot worse than it is.

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Our biggest newspaper is VG, a tabloid which focuses on huge headlines, big dramatic pictures and journalists that have without a doubt a very limited understanding of the complexity of many of the political issues they cover. You honestly feel that VG is covering US politics in a satisfactory way?

I also feel it is a problem that the biggest TV-station is run by the government, and its programming is heavily influnenced by the socialistic democratic ideas.

Something like 70% of journalists and journalism-students say they support SV, the party far left on the scale that has support in from about 8% of the population. Yeah, Im very critical of the Norwegian press.

Those Norwegians that claim that I am overly critical of the Norwegian press; have you ever compared the level of reporting in the American press like USA Today, NY Times or WSJ with that of VG, Dagbladet and Aftenposten?

If you have been to the US yourself and know a little about the country then you know that there is a lot of misconseptions among Norwegians about the US, and if not the press is to blame then who are?
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