I have to say that when I am involved into something the Icelandic media deals with, my guts (and knowledge) usually say they've got it wrong. So say a lot of friends. So I wonder if they ever get it right?
I could give several examples, a recent one being about school grades. They get things so wrong in so many places its amasing the journalists passed high school.
Another example has to the fact that some of the media promote certain views as if they were important. A good example is when a bunch of people demonstrated by a MP's house. A long trailer was shown on the news. Its a classic. You can actually count less than 15 demonstraters. How long would it have been if it had been 1500? Thats a demonstration. 15 is just busybodies. Or mobbing. I say mobbing as when the MPs husband opened the door the demonstraters fell silent and left. I.e. it was ok while the TV was there and cops but when the person being attacked came they left. Quite typical mobbing. Stand up to them and they leave.
A lot of these people claim to be fighting for rights. They talk about a new Iceland, justice, rights and so on. http://borgarahreyfingin.is/ is a good example. Grown out of a demonstration movement, wanting to go the democratic way (good), the pariamentary group lost one memeber who went first indipendant and then Left-Green. Then the rest of the MPs resigned from the party they stood for at election time. Resign? No no no no. I lost faith that day I have to say in their good cause.
The Left Green are also a bit dubious, one minister hiring his son, another not going by the book when paying undue damages and finally re-electing a man into the election board, a man that had resigned because of a High court ruling that the board had not worked by the election rules.
Seems to me there is a reason why people lack trust when it comes to the politics and media.
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