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Signs of the Media Times – interview with Truls Lie

INTERVIEW / MODERN TIMES's editor Truls Lie interviewed by Forum Borealis on several topics.




(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

Signs of the Media Times – A conversation with Truls Lie.
Some topics aired: Why did his newspaper's # 911 report cause mass hysteria?
When was media's Golden Age? What drives a genuine reporter?
Is profit and emotion replacing criticism and facts? How can independent media survive? What's wrong with public's attitude to MSM? What's fake news? and more.

© Borealis Forum. Recorded: 13 October 2020.



(You can also read and follow Cinepolitical, our editor Truls Lie's comments on X.)


Everyone tries to create intense closeness, but never manages to zoom out

ESSAY: The cultural expression of current crisis capitalism is 'immediacy'. The keywords are speed and availability. But contemporary art of immediacy is the paradoxical reversal of the avant-garde's privileging of the artist as a creative individual and the liberation of the viewer. And is today's new 'insurgent anarchism' an expression of a rejection of this logistical late capitalism?

But the international community does not react

ISRAEL/PALESTINE: Francesca Albanese explains that Israel cannot invoke the right of self-defense in response to attacks by groups emanating from the occupied territory. That does not mean that the country does not have the right to protect its citizens and respond to Hamas's crimes – but not with war.

Watergate with Norwegian sewage

Last Monday, the Storting decided that Norway's place should continue to be a forward base in NATO's command system. SV was joined by two representatives from another party and voted against. Large parts of the debate were a continuous cannonade against the Electoral Association, which never acknowledges that Norway should be the bearer of arms for the great "western democracies".

Our secret services — and a bit about Norway's path to NATO

By Svein Blindheim (1974) Orientering No. 18 brought an interview with Vilhelm Evang which is skewed and flawed because the reader will perceive it as if...

A detective journey around the photo studios of the past

PHOTOGRAPH: Cultural researcher Özge Baykan Calafato has collected a fascinating photo archive by trawling Istanbul's markets for antiques and rarities. With a selection of these photographs, she analyzes the relationship between population and state ideology during the establishment of the secular republic of Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s.

'The American Century'

USA: The American mission looks at the interesting field of tension between patriotism and liberalism, between inclusion and exclusion, and internationally between what are seen as friends and enemies of freedom. An analysis of how political myths formed the basis for an understanding of US national identity and agency in international conflicts, and of the 'American century', which seems to be fading these years.

When war history is written through American lenses

HISTORY: Reading this book is at times almost like watching one of those Hollywood war movies that were so popular a few years ago.

A whole life for others

BOOK: Photographer Manoocher Deghati is always on the side of the poorest, the amputees, the orphans, or the refugees queuing for water.

A well-directed play

POLITICAL ANALYSIS: Most have assumed that it was Russians who had shot the civilians found in the street in Butsja. But here in MODERN TIMES, peace researcher Ola Tunander criticizes this perception by documenting several facts that point in a different direction. For example: If Russian forces were responsible for the killings in Butsha, why didn't they try to cover them up? They have buried others.

"Man's technological omnipotence also became our disempowerment"

NUCLEAR BOMBS:Günther Anders was concerned that man's highest science had constructed an instrument for its own destruction. In this book, Hannah Winther actualizes him by drawing in Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning Oppenheimer film that just plays on the old Prometheus myth.

Abstaining from any form of violence WAR: Author

WAR: Author Ketil Bjørnstad's chronicle that the war in Ukraine will get out of control has been met with criticism. Referring to Stefan Zweig, Bjørnstad asked if the war is worth the murders, bombs, mutilations and suffering. The author of this essay believes, like Bjørnstad, that there is little evidence that Zweig abandoned his pacifist position.

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