Two Swedish Eyes on Media and Public Relations
Warning: toilet humour. A new hotel in Queenstown, New Zealand has “life sized images of girls peering in to the urinals” on the wall in the men’s room. Very creative and funny.
“It’s the most popular room in the five star hotel”, writes a local news site.
Coldplay gets great reviews for their concert on Monday.
Sundsvalls Tidning: 5/5
Aftonbladet: 4/5
Göteborgs-Posten: 4/5
Stockholm City: 4/5
Upsala Nya Tidning: 4/5
Svenska Dagbladet: 4/6
VLT are not quite as happy. And finally some sour grapes from Dagens Nyheter’s Po Tidholm who is busy dreaming of Gwyneth.
Update: GP, DN (in a second article not online) and SvD all quote former Oasis manager Alan McGee who called the band’s fans “bed-wetters”, a lazy metaphor for describing how provocative it is for a rock band to be nice guys.
The trial against Pentecostal pastor Åke Green will be broadcasted live by Swedish television SVT. This is the first time SVT is broadcasting from the Supreme Court, but no images will be shown, only audio.
Green was sentenced in the district court to one month in prison for hate speech against homosexuals. The sentence has been widely covered in international press.
The new monthly “gadget” magazine Passion from E+T Förlag has been delayed one month. It was originally planned to be launched the last week of October, but since E&T; publishing house recently was sold to Finnish company Talentum, the magazine will have its first issue out later in November.
Passion will be distributed along with business weekly Affärsvärlden and tech pub Ny Teknik and will have a circulation of 160 000 copies.
Andres Lokko may have been voted Sweden’s best rock journalist, but it can hardly be because of an impeccable taste in music. Lokko seems to actively hate any band with more than 6 fans and his main target this weekend is Coldplay, which fans he says “manifest their burning indifference to music by compulsively believe they appreciate X&Y;“.
Well, at least I have the guts to admit I can enjoy a good tune even if it’s middle-of-the-road and I always believed it was possible to listen to both ABBA and And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead. Both Kylie and Kraftwerk. Both ELO and Einsturzende Neubauten. But that’s just me. I just never realized that a music collection of some 600-700 albums made me indifferent to music.
Anywho, in a few hours I will be chanting along with 13,000 others when Goldfrapp and Coldplay play in Stockholm. And it will be a great evening for all us “music-haters”.
There’s nothing like a little argument between journalists, and blogs add a bit of spice to the mix. Kristoffer Poppius wrote a note in Dagens Nyheter “På Stan” and mentioned journalist Hanna Fahl, who didn’t exactly approve. Read her reply on the Jet Set Junta blog. In the comments, Poppius is offering some kind of correction in DN.