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Ranveig Eckhoff

Eckhoff is a regular critic in Ny Tid.
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On saving journalism from the media

MEDIA: Populists use the same stylistic devices: scandalization, incitement and imitation – something that politicians exploit. Press ethics, source criticism, thoroughness and transparency are difficult enough in the midst of today's media crossfire, which is characterized by haste and a weak economy.
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The Golden Age of Crises

CONTEMPORARY: Zeiten Ende is a complaint about the current lack of vision. But what about one of Harald Welzer's suggestions for improvement: 80 percent salary for professionals and 20 percent for social activities or volunteer work?
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World Wilderness Congress

ENVIRONMENT: What might wilderness mean to indigenous people who are deprived of it in the United States – or, in parallel, to lions who are fenced off and deprived of the opportunity to live wild in the wilderness of South Africa?
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In search of home

PSYCHOLOGY: Do we belong where we were born and raised? Or where we chose to form new roots? Many people are drawn to authoritarian environments, where organized contempt for people drives away decency and personal responsibility. Has rootedness possibly become less attractive than rootlessness?
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Awaiting my arrest tonight

UIGUR: This is Tahir Hamut Izgil's own story, and at the same time the story of hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, who suffer under China's oppression. From exile, he envisions his friends, weak and emaciated in a cell, terrorized during cross-examination, political retraining and forced labor, singing red anthems to the party's praise.
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The self-inflicted ecological disempowerment

ECOLOGY: With today's western consumer standards, how can we as environmentalists avoid the stigma of hypocrisy? Eat less meat, drive less, waste less resources? It is a prerequisite for the freedom of the next generations – because technological solutions cannot carry the load alone.
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Dommer Giovanni Falcone – Cosa Nostras nemesis

MAFIA: Giovanni Falcone, this inspirator with the dark mustache and the winning smile, lived to be only 53 years old. He is a stalwart in the fight for the values ​​most people say they stand for. Perhaps Roberto Saviano writes about him precisely to recall the extent of the sacrifice, its motive, its achievements, and what qualities are required. He himself is well aquainted with this.
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The freedom struggle, in all its forms

USA: According to OECD statistics, less than a third of the American population has confidence in their government. From ethnic conflicts, a recently amended abortion law and widespread violence – the gun lobby is still fighting for the freedom to kill, even though the majority in the US wants more restrictive gun laws. Is the trade-off between freedom and security a failure?
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Why do we always ask why men commit acts of violence, instead of asking why they don't?

FEMICID: Murders of women do not only occur structurally and not only based on misogynistic motives – they are also largely trivialized or go unpunished.
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