Erik Strand, 11.04.2026
In a world where mainstream media tend to be filled with omissions, lies and half truths, those who have power need people who can praise mainstream media as trustworthy while smeraing alternative sources. I will here give one example.
Magne Bjella is a Norwegian Labour Party activist who is active on X. By searching the Internet, one sees that he is contact person for the Labour Party’s Oslo chapter’s forum for Commerce Politics (screenshot saved). On April 4th, Bjella started a thread on X (I have saved screenshots here and here) where he uttered “It is good to live in one of the world’s best countries to live in”, companied with a link to “Freedom of Expression Index” 2025. I replied that Magne Bjella could gain from studying the real conditions in Norway, followed by a link to Fampo’s collection (in Norwegian) about Norwegian conditions. Bjella then replied: “I read serious media which has got an editorial staff, not blogs.
I then replied the following to Bjella:
“With that attitude you will miss much important material. Concerning the webpage I linked to (which can barely be called a blog), it contains sundry links to media which cleraly have an editorial staff, as well as articles with a named aouthor. As an example, I can mention the report “Ytringsfrihetens pris i Det skjulte Norge” [“The price of freedom of speech in the veiled Norway”] written by the organisation Fampo’s leader Dag Hiåsen, who discloses, among other things, the abuse of the legal system in order to get rid of an editor who wrote about shady conditions in Norway.
If you take a look at the website’s top menu, you also find a collection of litterature about Norwegian conditions which do not belong in a democracy or a country with judicial security. Among the book editors we find among others the two former Members of Parliament Erling Folkvord and Marie Lovise Widnes”.
There are numerous examples of conditions that have been more truthfully covered by blogs or “alternative media” than by mainstream media. And that is what makes the attitude towrds media that Magne Bjella furthers, so detrimental to society.
Fampo 