“How is the situation with the freedom of journalism in times of war?”
“Kajsa Ekis Ekman responds to Today’s News about his reportage from Venezuela”
“This is a kulturartikel which is a part of Aftonbladet’s opinionsjournalistik.”
“the DEBATE. How is the situation with the freedom of journalism in times of war?”
“I wonder because the reporting on Venezuela seems so directed lately. It is as if it was a diktat of the day, Trump threatened the country with attack. Journalism disappeared and instead we got krigspornografiska stories about a country in need of rescue from an evil tyrant – is eerily similar to the ones written about Iraq and Libya prior to the invasion.”
“nBorta are accounts of the geopolitical interests at stake. Gone are also the small detail that the united states and the EUROPEAN union keeps the country in a blockade and do not allow it to buy medicines, as well as to precisely the type of ”
“Here is an interesting comparison: when Russia tried to get into Ukraine under exactly the same pretext in 2014, called Ukraine a”
“Same letter, different senders. Where is the memory?”
“nJag went to Venezuela because I wanted to find out how it was there. In my two reports from there, I try to account for the complexity of a country in crisis, threatened by a military attack (Aftonbladet 18 and 19 feb). “
“I lived with poor people, I depicted their concern for the war, their lives since the revolution, their dissatisfaction with the crisis and their involvement in social movements. In short: I described what I saw. I think, and have been told by many readers that these eyewitness accounts are appreciated, as it is otherwise not able to take part of someone else in the Swedish press.”
“But Martin Liby Troein on Today’s News leader board do not think that this story should never have been published. The poor people I interview have the wrong opinion: many voted for Maduro.”
“Liby Troeins stance is remarkable. How does he view on freedom of expression and freedom of journalism, really?”
“nSärskilt strange is it when he says that this is to”
“on the Contrary I lay the blame on both the sanctions and the government for the economic crisis. And the people I interview are not uncritical towards the Maduro, on the contrary. But is Liby Troein so blinded by its cold war dichotomy that he can’t see that there can be more than two positions? Is that where we come from? That every deviation from the Trumps krigsretorik should be stopped?”
“night be an intellectual, Martin Liby Troein, it is to use more keys than ctrl+C and ctrl+V. It is to think, study, and analyze yourself. Not to knee-jerk put itself in the service of our time warlords. “