Media

Have you been un-Twinglied?

Kristine Lowe

18 Feb 2008 — 1 min read

It seems we have a new measure for media bias: Did someone just remove the Twingly link to the blog post in which you commented on one of the news site's articles?

In the old days we spoke of all those issues that simply fell off the agenda, or the issues leftists felt was wrongly represented in right-wing media and vice versa. Access to the editorial pages of mainstream media was for the select few. Now that several newspapers have started linking up blogreactions to their news articles with services like Twingly, broadcasting your views on mainstream media coverage - not only on your blog, but also to the journalists or columnists responible for that coverage - is easier than ever.

Or not? Swedish thinker Johan Norberg claims on his blog (in Swedish) that Dagens Nyheter (DN) first removed all the Twingly links to an article by Andreas Malm which Norberg blogged about and linked to, then put them up again but omitted the link to Norberg's blog post, in which he defends himself against Malm's claims. Malm levies pretty serious allegations against Norberg, an ardent defender of globalisation best known internationally for his book "In defense of global capitalism", naming Norberg as a contributor to some kind of Islamophobic hell if I read him correctly.

When I talked to DN's online editor, Charlotta Friborg, before Christmas, my impression was that they only removed Twingly links to blatantly racist comments. I can think of several 'derogatory' names to call Mr. Norberg, some of which I know he'd welcome (I know him from more than ten years back), but racist is certainly not one of them (neither is Islamophobe).

Update 20/2: More on this debate on untwinglying, or Twingly censorship, whichever you prefer, here from Dagens Media (in Swedish)

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