Month: April 2006

Why don’t the tabloids care?

Expressen columnist Linda Skugge wants the Swedish football team to boycott the World Cup in Germany in a protest at extra brothels being set up for visiting football fans. What an excellent idea, and at no risk whatsoever for Skugge herself.

But why not start by arguing that her own employer should stop endorsing the World Cup, for example by handing out tickets to Sweden’s games, see link next to Skugge’s column? Above this column there is a banner to Expressen’s World Cup site www.vm06.se and we can expect most papers to exploit the World Cup during the coming months. There’s a lot of money to be made here. Let’s face it Linda, your salary is paid by World Cup fans. What are you going to do about that?

And while we are talking about women’s rights, why does the model in the photo below have to be a nude woman painted with the Swedish flag? I thought we were talking about the men’s World Cup here.

…just for the record, I strongly disapprove of prostitution. OK?

Influence only in opposition

Social democrat Lennart Nilsson has been a member of the Swedish Riksdag for 30 years, longer than any other member in the current parliament. He is interviewed in today’s Metro:

Which period have you enjoyed the most?
– Acutally when we were in opposition in 1991-94. I was part of the parliamentary party under Ingvar Carlsson. I then felt that we had influence over politics.

(Då kände jag att vi hade inflytande över politiken.)

Exclusivity in 2006

Dagens Industri’s car reporter Håkan Matson goes to a press event for the concept car Saab Aero X.

“A norwegian paper drags the car away to [a gas station] and the reporter gets incredibly upset when we join him. He says he’s got exclusive rights to the idea. But at the gas station there is also a young girl, who takes a photo of the car with her cell phone. A few seconds later all her friends have an MMS-photo of the Aero X.

That’s exclusivity in 2006.”

DI Weekend, 7-8 April 2006.

All PR bloggers are above average

I now and then take a peek at PubSub’s list of PR bloggers to check my ranking, and today it’s good news all over. All bloggers on the list are moving upwards, except for the ones in the top that are “non-movers”. No-one is down. It makes me think of the quote by Garrison Keillor: “Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”