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Solidarity

How often do we hear this word ? We have to show solidarity toward people in need, toward the poor, toward the less developed. Recently in the Norwegian press the case of non-reporting on the riots in Sweden in December 2008 was also put into this context. The editors of the main media — radio, TV and the press — wanted to show solidarity towards their neighbours and not reflect them in a bad light, so, they decided simply not…

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Are they helping others or helping themselves ?

“Every now and then we go through this awakening process that really makes us feel used and manipulated,” a colleague told me the other day. Some time ago the Norwegian documentary film “The Famine Scam” was awarded first prize for its outstanding journalistic work on the “famine” in Niger. Let us go back to July 2005 when we were confronted with photos of starving children in Niger. The UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in those days informed journalists that more than…

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