As I have written in an earlier blog post, there is only one opinion that is allowed in Sweden. The “7-party” (nickname for the seven different parties in the parliament, holding the same opinion on immigration) has no problem as regards how to propagate for this standpoint. The MPs have full support from the Swedish media. Both the press and the TV-channels support the official standpoint and do their utmost to function as the megaphone of the parliament.
How come that Swedish media is cringing to this degree before the authorities? First and foremost, there are the so-called Press Subsidies. This is a state subsidy available for newspapers. The aim is to promote diversity and competition among the daily newspapers. It is the Press Subsidies Council (Presstödsnämnden) that distributes the subsidies, which total fully 500 MSEK a year. This has been seriously criticized by the EU, that states that too high subsidies are given to two large city newspapers, that are granted three times more money that the smaller ones. The subsidy is not consistent with the EU competition regulations. Some debaters are by right critical and mean that this is the best way of the authorities to govern what to publish and above all what not to publish.
Secondly, there is another interesting Swedish phenomenon: the so-called Little Saltlake Bath Agreement (Lilla Saltsjöbadsavtalet, hereinafter LSBA). It contains just as incriminating details that the general public should not find out. The LSBA was established at the meeting of the Swedish Journalist Organisation (Svenska journalistförbundet) in Saltsjöbaden on 21 March 1987. The agreement clearly and explicitly decrees how news reporting where immigrants are involved must be performed.
“Especially point out and describe in a positive way Swedish citizens of foreign descent. Positively describe and bring out people of foreign origin. Bring out immigrants particularly as regards sporting and youth activities and cultural event. During a period of 5 years, systematically silence the negative effects, like pointing out a particular race in criminal activities, that can be the result for affected populations.”
This is probably the one and only agreement of this kind in the whole world, and the content of which aims at keeping the inhabitant unaware of what is going on. Just the fact that the agreement exists clearly shows that the journalists knew that they did something that they shouldn’t have done. Irrespective of the LSBA was a formal or an oral agreement, it still characterizes media’s (lack of) stating of the perpetrator’s ethnicity when describing crimes. Some weeks ago, I watched a discussion among certain journalists where they discussed the abolition of the LSBA. Now this video clip has disappeared from You Tube.
[Update! I got a tip from a reader that part of this video clip is embedded in this Swedish clip by Jan Milld. The discussion is to be found at the beginning of the clip.]
Another organisation for the journalists, The Swedish Publicist Organisation, has had a chairman, Jan Guillou, that once was a KGB agent. An intriguing piece of information, the source of which is the Swedish Journalist Organisation itself, is that 70% of the Swedish journalists vote Socialist, 30% non-Socialist. There are several theories why this is the case. But could this possibly influence the way news is angled in Sweden? An obvious lack of pluralism?
There are examples of the LSBA every day in Swedish media. Here are only two examples: Recently a young woman was raped in Karlstad. The newspapers omitted the rapist’s description since it could be racist to write it out. The newspapers apparently prefer to save their own reputation in the politically correct climate, instead of helping the police and the people to find the man. The newspapers also risked other women’s safety by omitting the rapist’s detailed description.
In Denmark a Somalian stabbed a female social worker to death. The Danish press mentioned the man’s nationality. The Swedish press did not. When asked why, the newspaper Aftonbladet stated that it is more democratic to conceal the truth. This shows a deep difference between the Danish and the Swedish press.
A few days ago, we were informed that Swedish newspapers’ editions are declining. Perhaps the newspapers have themselves to blame for this.
[Update 7 March 2010: There seems to exist a similar British inofficial agreement to be found here:
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3680]
[Update 9 APril 2010: This link (in Swedish, though, indicates the proof of the existence of the Lilla Saltsjöbadsavtalet:
https://www.flashback.org/t621664p2]
Ja, bara att hålla med .
This is very important. I have myself on my blog discussed the phenomenon of “voter contempt” among Swedish politicians and to some degree touched on a similar “reader contempt” phenomenon among reporters and editors in news media. Your article sheds very important light on the very same problem. I will definitely link to this on my blog.
Visst är det så.
“Öststatdemokratierna”, de tidigare så omhuldade kommunistiska regimerna försvann som bekant, 1989…. Den samlade vänstermaffian inom journalistkåren beslutade två tidigare att inplementera deras livsverk…. Censuren…
Dessvärre hänger den fortfarande kvar i Sverige, ännu år 2010…
Så förhåller det sig när bolsjeviker får jobba ostört tillsammans med de etablerade riksdagspartierna…
Säkert kommer en hel del inom PK – begreppet att mjukas upp framöver….
Vi har redan hört… att alliansregeringen skall kartlägga vissa islamistiska rörelsers verksamheter i Sverige.
Vem har tidigare hört från offentligt politiskt håll ….att det kan finnas tvivelaktiga rörelser i Sverige… Vissa smärre antydningar men ?…..
SÄPO med sina ständiga rapporter till slutna riksdagsrum, Ja..
Men offentligt? Ingen!
Det böjar bli hett om fötterna på de PK -vänliga riksdagspartierna…
Mycket står på spel i den annalkande valrörelsen…
Det finns ett parti som lurar i vassen…Helt klart.
Bra skrivet
Kan du ange kalla for citatet i din bloggartikel? Jag skulle vilja ta upp saken pa min blogg ocksa, men lank till din.
Hej S R Larsson,
Huruvida “Lilla Saltsjöbadsavtalet” är verklighet eller myt är något som länge har debatterats på svenska bloggar.
Jag var själv väldigt skeptiskt tills jag såg den numera borttagna videon på You Tube där de två journalisterna Susanna Popova och Thomas Gür väldigt klart bekräftade att en överenskommelse av denna typ definitivt finns.
Det var ett tag sedan som jag såg videon och jag kommer inte ihåg detaljerna. Dock kommer jag ihåg att det, som vanligt, inte blev någon som helst debatt i “vanliga” medier.
Finns det någon som har sparat videon? Finns den på någon annan site?
Vet ej var videon med Gür och Popova finns, däremot finns kort klipp från den inklippt i följande filmsnutt från Jan Milld:
Stort tack för denna länk. Vi får tacka Jan som räddat den till eftervärlden, eller den sajt där den ligger, eftersom den tydligen blvit för kontroversiell för att få ligga kvar på You Tube. Ska ta mig tid senare att länka in den i själva artikeltexten.
Snyggt jobbat, Niklas!
7-party – what??
I am so very swedish and I’ve never heard the word.
This is a nickname for the 7 parties in the parliament. They are all having the same policy as regards immigration. So if you want a change in this policy you cannot choose any of these parties, you will have to choose a party not yet in the parliament.
Sweden is in big trouble when the press doesn’t print the truth. I can see Denmark eventually getting rid of its arselifter (my derogatory name for muslims. I will never show them or their satanic cult any respect) infestation. The sad part of this is that Sweden will probably end up inheriting Denmark’s arselifters.
I´m swedish and I am so glad that I have found all these blogs that are exposing our lying media!
Swedish press and television are corrupt to the very core and they make me sick to my stomach.
So they are! Internet has become a safe haven for us who have started to doubt the “official” media image of Sweden. For me, this is a way of letting out the anger and despair I feel when I see what is happening here in Sweden without being allowed to mention it without being seen as a racist. I hope you have found other interesting blogs as well. You can often find good blogs in the blog roll and then go on finding interesting and serious blogs. The nice thing is that it is interactive, that you can react on what is written and participate in the debate. In most Swedish newpapers, the comment field is strictly censored, which means that almost no contribution that has something negative to say about the prevailing immigration policy is allowed to be published. I feel more and more that Sweden is like the DDR.
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ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY!
Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.
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