Spegillinn

On mafia involvement in the energy sector

September 5, 2010

Sigrún Davíðsdóttir, one of Iceland’s best investigative reporters [she blogs in English here] recently broadcast a fascinating report on increased mafia investments in the energy sector, on current affairs radio programme Spegillinn, which airs on RÚV, weekdays at 18.30. Sigrún bases her information on a report by Europol on the mafia’s involvement in the energy [...]

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On “re-educating” the media

March 9, 2010

This is kind of old, but it’s just been brought to my attention. In October of last year, the Financial Times reported that the Public Health Institute of Iceland had urged the Icelandic media to spin stories to make them more positive, allegedly to save us Nicelanders from depression. Amid fears that collective funk could [...]

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When good people become dangerous people

February 4, 2010

One of the best programmes in Iceland today is the current affairs programme Spegillinn [the mirror], broadcast on RÚV radio 1 after the evening news. And one of the very best reporters on Spegillinn is Sigrún Davíðsdóttir, RÚV’s London correspondent, who not only unearths the most amazing facts and figures and sides of the kreppa, [...]

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Glitnir’s Kiddiegate Affair

November 4, 2009

A few off-topic comments were written beneath the last post referring to the loans that Glitnir [bank] made to children. Most commenters expressed a mixture of outrage and indignation that a bank would make loans to minors and – not least – that the children’s parents would have applied for those loans on behalf of [...]

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