(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
The article is from January 3, 2018. Please read about New Time.
Happy New Year! You hold this year's first edition of Ny Tid in your hand – in the format we started with when I took over as editor in 2015. Somewhat reluctantly, we gradually reduced the large format to adapt to Klassekampen's tabloid size, but now continue where we started – in large format, as the "heretic" among Norwegian mass media. In this size, Ny Tid is the only newspaper in Norway that can paint with a wide brush pictorially – that is, take advantage of visual opportunities others do not have. We have also increased the font a bit, so the articles will be easier to read. Full format (broadsheet) is more in line with our international orientering, and feels more natural with our focus on background material rather than news – similar to weekly newspapers such as Weekendavisen and Die Zeit. Our house cartoonist "Jetzig" is new to the team, and the newspaper will in future have more air around the articles.
In 2017, Ny Tid was attacked by a number of media and readers for our criticism of what we thought was a not entirely credible American 9/11 survey. These I mean either I may not have read the article – or not read it thoroughly enough. Too quickly, it was concluded that we should have meant or supported conspiracy theories that the Americans themselves were behind the attack on the World Trade Center (see also case on the front page). In a fake-journalismstyle and without following the Beware poster, New Time was portrayed as a spreader of conspiracy theories. New Time certainly did not claim that the Americans were behind it – and if anyone were to be fooled, I would rather assume that the terrorists themselves used harder lye than jet fuel to be sure of demolishing the WTC towers.
Ny Tid has a socially liberal and ecological value base, inspired by anarchism. The newspaper is therefore skeptical about the current military-industrial complex and its many consequences, as well as the use of force within the state and capital (surveillance, control and finance).
This year, we will be working to ensure that our newspaper has several documents, as well as initiate a closer collaboration with the Eurozine network's interesting articles. We will continue our focus on digging journalism, criticism, essays and commentary. Every month we talk about 25 books and documentaries. Now, at the beginning of 2018, we feel good energy.
So hang on – with our over 50 fabulous regular contributors we won't disappoint you!
