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Trump, CNN and the irony of media hysteria

Marius Oosthuizen by Marius Oosthuizen 21 February 201723 February 2017

The President of the United States, during a “campaign rally”, refers to a terror incident in Sweden which never took place. He bases his reference, and subsequently his policy approach, on a FoxNews interview with a fringe documentary filmmaker. The story of the Trump-fib hits the news cycle and goes around the world. Finally, CNN […]

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To polder, or not to polder, dike is the question

Warren Weertman by Warren Weertman 2 December 2011

By way of introduction, a polder is Dutch for land that has been reclaimed from the sea. As the saying goes, God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands. So what do polders have to do with this blog? Post Second World War Dutch society was characterised by, what the British press derisively […]

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