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Alternative warfare – Christmas proposition
UNESCO has published a list of killed journalists. This year there were 60 of them. Sixty killed journalists! That’s a lot of dead journalists. Many were killed in 2013, too. And not only in Syria! Just take a look at UNESCO’s list: Unesco condems killing of journalists Being dead may, however, be better than being…
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What’ll it be, eh?
I have just read an article in El Pais which alerted me to a debate that appears to be raging in many academic circles. The writer refers to the immortal opening lines of Dicken’s novel Tale of Two Cities, which he finds particularly relevant. And who could disagree? It was the best of times, it…
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Kunst versus virkeligheten versus realisme versus underholdning
En sjelden gang blir jeg glad. Det er i alle fall sjeldent om vinteren, siden jeg hverken kan eller vil gå på ski, nyte julebord eller se på TV. Men glad ble jeg. Det er også ytterst sjelden jeg føler jeg har oppdaget sannheten, og godt er det, for jeg har problemer nok som det…