Sunday, September 04, 2005
"There was a house in New Orleans", part II
Here's the thing - if no American newspaper wants to publish your article, you're probably not all that important as an American commentator. Something to think about when you're reading Michael Moore's article in the British tabloid paper Daily Mirror.
Not that the Bush-bashing press in northern Europe pays much attention to that.
In the Danish paper Ekstrabladet (in Danish) they run an article about how the rapper Kanye West accused Bush of racism (for not caring about black people in New Orleans) on American TV. (You have to read the full article to find out that the segment with West was actually edited and the slander attack was never really broadcasted...)
And then we have Aftonbladet (in Swedish) which, for the second day in a row, top their headline with Michael Moore lashing out against Bush: "Here Bush is taunted for his incompetence" (a story based on the Daily Mirror article above).
FactCheck.org has a quite different take on the whole blame-game, but I guess that their reasonable approach to accountability doesn't excite the editors at the European newspapers. At least not when they are not willing to instantly link Bush to any tragedy that appears in the world.
Not that the Bush-bashing press in northern Europe pays much attention to that.
In the Danish paper Ekstrabladet (in Danish) they run an article about how the rapper Kanye West accused Bush of racism (for not caring about black people in New Orleans) on American TV. (You have to read the full article to find out that the segment with West was actually edited and the slander attack was never really broadcasted...)
And then we have Aftonbladet (in Swedish) which, for the second day in a row, top their headline with Michael Moore lashing out against Bush: "Here Bush is taunted for his incompetence" (a story based on the Daily Mirror article above).
FactCheck.org has a quite different take on the whole blame-game, but I guess that their reasonable approach to accountability doesn't excite the editors at the European newspapers. At least not when they are not willing to instantly link Bush to any tragedy that appears in the world.
