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As an experiment, what about looking at the think pieces and ideas that still stick from 2023 – rather than the newest new thing or predicting trends that may or may not come to pass? For me, some of the articles I still think about, that still resonate from last year
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Well, what did you know: While journalists all over the world unsuccessfully were chasing interviews with the mother of Norwegian soloterrorist Anders Behring Breivik, she was giving almost daily interviews to NRK's former Russia correspondent Marit Christensen. That much was made clear in VG's interview with
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Last year Norway experienced the worst peacetime massacre in modern Norwegian history, these are some of the frontpages the country woke up to today - one year later to the day. I kind of think the more minimalistic ones are the strongest ones, I especially like Aftenposten and VG'
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- Don’t let Anders Behring Breivik become an excuse to encroach on human rights, said Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Since the twin terror attacks on Utöya and Oslo 22/7 last year, Norway has seen demands to censor and monitor web communications grow stronger as people have looked for ways
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What do these terrorists have in common? The have all been diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenics. The psychiatrists tasked with determining the mental state of Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik today declared him to be criminally insane. According to their evaluation, the terrorist who killed 77 people in Norway this summer
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"Yes, yes, I understand perfectly: the global meltdown," said a British journalist I interviewed on Thursday when I told him the day was a busy news day so the story might run later. "No, it's about the catalogue of errors made on 22/7, revealed
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- I’ve cried almost every day since 22/7, Knut Storberget told the media when he resigned as Norway’s minister of justice and police Friday. But he vehemently denied his resignation had anything to do with the Ministry’s growing catalogue of errors in handling the twin terror
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“I for one want to vote the Utøya-generation into office.” I’m not certain where I read that statement now: on Facebook, Twitter, blogs. It probably flashed past me frequently on all those platforms after 22/7, and after the municipal and county elections last moth it’s clear that
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Just how will the wheel turn, how will the public debate shift, after the terror attacks of 22/7? Food for thought from Björn Stærk: ...After the terror attacks in Norway on July 22, perpetrated by a fanatical opponent of multiculturalism and the Islamization of Europa, it happens again. The
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Anders Behring Breivik might have killed close to 100 people to market a manifesto partly copied from the Unabomber. I didn’t know whether to cry or throw up while reading the manifesto published by the man who has admitted to the twin terror attacks on Oslo Friday. When people
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Much of the media speculation ahead of Obama's flying visit to Norway today has centered on what the one question he has said he will take from Norwegian press will be. And the question is: Annette Groth, The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK): "Giving the peace prize to
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Several hundred gingerbread houses were smashed to pieces as vandals broke into a tent harbouring "the world's biggest gingerbread town" in downtown Bergen last night. Outrage over the havoc wrought by "the gingerbread vandals" was the first thing that met me when I logged