Expressen ‘reveals’ CIA spy story – really?
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Now, I don’t usually think that bashing other media in Sweden, big or small, gets anyone very far, but just for the record I think it’s worth pointing out that Expressen.se is currently leading with a story that The Local was the first to break in Sweden yesterday.
The story, that US spies infiltrated the Swedish anti-Vietnam War movement, was revealed in newly declassified CIA documents. We know Expressen found it through us because Expressen’s reporter contacted our reporter, Paul O’Mahony, after seeing our story, to get a link to the document. Paul gave him the link.
When they published today, not only was there no reference to The Local (bad manners, but we’ll live), but the article was prefaced by the claim that ‘Expressen revealed’ the story. They have done their own interviews and gathered material, but their claim that they ‘revealed’ the story is inaccurate. As we know that they saw it on The Local first, it is more than inaccurate: it’s a deliberate untruth.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
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July 1st, 2007 at 9:01 am
Expressen is one of some newspapers in Sweden who have a really low manor about right and wrong and whats the truth or not.Keep up the work when people in Sweden already know how this newsapaper work !?. :)
September 10th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
The Local is clearly the coolest.