I like newspapers. I like the feel of the actual paper in my hands at the same time as I find out what has happened in my region and in the world.
In the Øresund Region we have a special situation. In the middle there is a national border, almost uncrossable for some and unimportant for others. I belong to the second category, who do not see the border as a problem and I am not alone. In the last couple of years our group has been increasing exponentially. Why is it then that there are no real Øresund newspapers? There is an obvious need for them that will not diminish in the years to come. Instead we have very state-nationalistic papers on both sides of Øresund.
A free papers at the bus- and train stations in Zealand and Scania are the obvious first choice for an Øresund newspaper. The present situation is that the difference of a Metro(Xpress) in Copenhagen and a Metro Skåne in Scania is much larger than the differences between a Metro Stockholm and a Metro Skåne. This is just ridiculous.
In the same region there are two versions of the same paper? How can that make corporate sense? Before anyone counters with: "One is Swedish and the other one is Danish" my retort is simply: "So what"? Most people who have interest in an Øresund paper have no problems with that. They are still just written variants of Scandinavian languages. Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Gutnian, Dalecarlian, Scanian etc are language variants of the same theme so to say.
Actually the differences between the Metro issues in Skåne and Stockholm are minute. Even though they report for readers in regions 700 km apart! That is even stranger is many respects. Are really the same news of interest for us in Scania as they are for people in Stockholm all the time? Do we in Scania always have to get news filtered by the establishment in Stockholm?
Are we talking Swedish censorship here, a continuation of the Swedenization process in absurdum?
In the Øresund Region we have a special situation. In the middle there is a national border, almost uncrossable for some and unimportant for others. I belong to the second category, who do not see the border as a problem and I am not alone. In the last couple of years our group has been increasing exponentially. Why is it then that there are no real Øresund newspapers? There is an obvious need for them that will not diminish in the years to come. Instead we have very state-nationalistic papers on both sides of Øresund.
A free papers at the bus- and train stations in Zealand and Scania are the obvious first choice for an Øresund newspaper. The present situation is that the difference of a Metro(Xpress) in Copenhagen and a Metro Skåne in Scania is much larger than the differences between a Metro Stockholm and a Metro Skåne. This is just ridiculous.
In the same region there are two versions of the same paper? How can that make corporate sense? Before anyone counters with: "One is Swedish and the other one is Danish" my retort is simply: "So what"? Most people who have interest in an Øresund paper have no problems with that. They are still just written variants of Scandinavian languages. Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Gutnian, Dalecarlian, Scanian etc are language variants of the same theme so to say.
Actually the differences between the Metro issues in Skåne and Stockholm are minute. Even though they report for readers in regions 700 km apart! That is even stranger is many respects. Are really the same news of interest for us in Scania as they are for people in Stockholm all the time? Do we in Scania always have to get news filtered by the establishment in Stockholm?
Are we talking Swedish censorship here, a continuation of the Swedenization process in absurdum?
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