Protests in Denmark

From Paddy Maynooth:

Even if you can't understand the text, the pictures and the numbers in these articles from Danish newspapers and TV news programmes say it all.

This is very, very favourable coverage - in sharp contrast to the begrudging coverage of October 2002. Most striking is the coverage provided by the conservative daily Berlingske Tidende, which is usually friendly to the liberal-conservative government coalition.

Berlingske has now provided an enthusiastic, unprejudiced description of the participants - "2,000 young and old" - in contrast to the description of October 2002, which described us as mostly socialists. Most of the participants that time were very probably lefties, but you could not determine this by looking at us. I imagine there were in fact again many socialist placards this time, and I can now see hints of an anarchist presence (wearing black and red), so it is interesting that that detail is now politely ignored.

But most striking is the fact that Berlingske now provides the URL for the Danish anti-war demo organisers' website. These people are mostly hard left, including various communist fractions not represented in the Danish parliament.

So the fact that all of these media now provide decent coverage of the event presumably reflects the overall shift in popular opinion, extending into liberal and conservative segments of the population and constituting a majority that wants Danish troops out soon. Market forces dictate that even the most convervative newspapers - Berlingske Tidende and JyllandsPosten - must now provide the good news their conservative, anti-war readers want.

Read 'em and smile:

http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=554490/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2953550/
http://ekstrabladet.dk/visArtikel.iasp?pageID=287296
http://www.bt.dk/krimi/artikel:aid=350262/
http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/article.jhtml?articleID=242352
http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php?id=2118348

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