Re: Sweden -- A few reactions on the N.Y. Times article

[Dennis R Redmond <dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Per Gunnar Berglund wrote:

> I was under the impression that
> the N.Y.T. was a first-class paper, but after reading this, I am no
> longer very confident about that.

Sad to say, the NY Times has been degenerating since the 1970s; its
coverage of Central America in the Eighties gave new meaning to the term
"abysmal", and its international news coverage can't hold a candle to the
Wall Street Journal. I'll never forget my shock at discovering that even
the regional paper in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, provided more
sophisticated commentary and pointed analysis than the Times (this is
even more true for TV and radio).

This raises an interesting point, though: do the Leftwing papers provide
an adequate forum for Keynesian and generally progressive economic views
in Sweden? I know Le Monde and Die Zeit (and let's not forget the dear
Tageszeitung, available at www.taz.de for those of you who can read
auf deutsch) do a creditable job in France and Germany. Is Sweden the
same, or is Euromonetarism slowly poisoning the Scandinavian mass media,
too?

-- Dennis