{"id":258,"date":"2003-09-19T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2003-09-19T08:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2003-09-19T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2003-09-19T08:24:08","slug":"lindh-suspect-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2003\/09\/lindh-suspect-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindh suspect named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/farright\/story\/0,11981,1044274,00.html\">named<\/a> the suspect held for the murder of Anna Lindh. It&#8217;s a very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riksdagen.se\/folkvald\/ledamotr\/Ledamot\/Per-OlofSvensson_en.htm\">typical<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pellefotograf.com\/pellefotograf\/\">Swedish<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djursdala.net\/gene\/antavla\/0001\/389.htm\">name<\/a>. Other wire services are also reporting the name. In fact, some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweden.se\/\">Swedish government agencies<\/a> who carry these wire services have now also unwittingly <a>named<\/a> the suspect<span class=\"sg-marginalia-250\"><b><font color=\"FF0000\">Update 2003\/9\/24:<\/font><\/b> Svensson is released, and no longer under suspicion for Anna Lindh&#8217;s murder. A new suspect is arrested.<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody who works in Swedish media knows the name, and trades it like the hot gossip it is, but nobody here publishes or broadcasts it. This is as hypocritical as it is futile; human nature abhors an information vacuum, so Swedes will turn to foreign media to get the information they need.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftonbladet.se\/\">Aftonbladet<\/a> and others have taken this ridiculousness to its logical conclusion, printing full-page blurs that could be a snapshot of just about anyone. The only message being rubbed into readers&#8217; faces is &#8220;we know who he is and we are not telling you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Can Swedish media please step into the 21st century? There is no point in being ethical if you are irrelevant. In any case, you are not being unethical if you publish names of suspects. They are innocent until proven guilty, sure, but still suspect and hence newsworthy. I don&#8217;t understand how the police are expecting to get tips from the public if they do not want to tell us who the tips are supposed to be about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has named the suspect held for the murder of Anna Lindh. It&#8217;s a very typical Swedish name. Other wire services are also reporting the name. In fact, some Swedish government agencies who carry these wire services have now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2003\/09\/lindh-suspect-named\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-economics","category-sweden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-4a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}