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It is now two years since the new Ny Tid was established. So where does the road go next?




(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

It is now two years since the new Ny Tid was established. So where does the road go next? With the change from weekly newspaper to monthly newspaper, and then as a permanent attachment to Klassekampen, we have achieved a potential readership of 100. We now consider ourselves a good supplement to Klassekampen, the country's most important critical-political daily newspaper – with our concentration on dig journalism, travel essays , interviews, political comments and critiques of documentaries and books.

With the media diversity report just presented, I remind us that we are a little different from today's more socialist-popular Class struggle and the bourgeois-academic Morgenbladet. In this "triangle" we consider ourselves (eco) anarchists and social liberals. This is how the three newspapers complement each other in the media image of the critical reader.

We have found that we are terribly annoying to someone – where our criticism is not perceived as debating and nuanced, but spontaneously as if our newspaper is either with you or against you. This also applies to our criticism of Israel's policy. We have also been told, without any further argument, that the editor has "dumbed down", has a terrible human view, yes, is dangerous. A critic can be called "raving mad", or a case is referred to as "outrageously bad".

But I say with George Orwell: "Journalism is to print what some do not want to print; everything else is public relations. ”

We recently published our third article (most recently online) about Eugene Nkuranyabahizi, who has spent four years in a Norwegian prison as a genocide suspect and only barely escaped deportation to Rwanda. There he had probably, despite his presumed innocence, had to spend the rest of his life behind the walls. Among other things, due to Ny Tid's revelation of false diplomas, he was released, and Kripos was then reported to the Special Unit for Police Affairs. Dagsrevyen brought our case about Nkuranyabahizi as its main issue the same day we published.

I would also like to recall the Trandum case, where we revealed that the doctor at the reception was obviously racist. After NRK Kveldsnytt had run this case, they called from Trandum and claimed that our half Moroccan journalist must have had "temporary motives".

And what about UNE, which despite several warnings sent out two Chechen asylum seekers – who we dug out that were then tortured and murdered, probably by the authorities? UNE reported us because they did not receive a "quick enough message" that a former NRK journalist (who was almost murdered on assignment in Chechnya) then brought the case to Ny Tid, because then they would answer us differently…

We have experienced that we complain about the details of the Press's professional committee, but fail to include the main content of our criticism.

So where do we go next? In addition to our digging and commentary journalism, we try to live up to our newspaper name, and consider possible future scenarios. New now is also our larger investment in international non-fiction – long before they come to Norway. As a kind Oslo Review of Docs and Books, we cover books the world talks about – and like documentaries – where something is at stake.

Born out of tradition after Orientering, which was created in 1953 (see back), we now stand as two-year-olds so far on their feet. We hope you have a personality!

Truls Lie
Truls Liehttp: /www.moderntimes.review/truls-lie
Editor-in-chief in MODERN TIMES. See previous articles by Lie i Le Monde diplomatique (2003–2013) and Morgenbladet (1993-2003) See also part video work by Lie here.

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