Sweden a democracy?

Well, that’s the question one poses after seeing how media is covering up and protecting Liza Marklund after the scandal about her scam book about a battered woman. Reporters do not bring up the subject because they are stopped by their hierarchy!!! Sweden is apparantly the new Russia where power and money rules over the truth. I feel lika I’m in an episode of the X-files: The truth is out there! And it is, thanks to the internet.

But when it comes to Swdish media there is a huge cover-up:

A tv-channel (Tv 4) stops its reporters from investigating into the story. Jonas Gummesson (tv4) who is in a power-position refuses to transmit the scoop one of his reporters has done. With no explanation. Later we find out that he is a friend of Marklund’s and has borrowed her app. in Stockholm during his divorce and her villa in Spain.

Newspapers:

Expressen: Marklund works for Expressen and so does her daughter so forget about it. They did run an article, but only in LM’s favour.

Aftonbladet: Nobody understood their silence at first. Now it is clear that they had counted on Marklund to save them from a financial disaster with her latest crappy book which they have bought the rights to in order to sell it with the paper. This deal was obviously made before the truth about Marklund’s “true-story” books came out.

Dagens Nyheter: Their highest responsible is in the comittee of a certain publishing house- yeah you guessed right, the one that published the “true-story-books”; Piratförlaget.

Something stinks in the Swedish media, and like in China during the Olympics, the internet is the only way to discuss the truth. I am so disgusted by how power and money is more important than ethics and the truth!