Source check, source check, source check

In a world filled with more and more fake news, the need for objective, independent and expert media becomes greater and greater. Unfortunately, the media fails to catch the ball.

When I was young, the state-owned Swedish television (SVT) was objective, reliable, accurate and factual. Both factual and spelling errors have recently become increasingly common on SVT. Sadly, SVT has been infiltrated by both environmental and left-wing activists at the same time as personnel have been quotated.

A highly respected former SVT journalist for many years, Jan Josefsson, most recently confirmed in December 2023 during an interview that SVT's reporting has and has had a clear left-wing orientation. In the same interview, he also confirmed that many within SVT are environmental or left-wing activists.

Jan Josefsson maintains that it has affected and still affects what SVT reports on.

This leads to a greater responsibility falling on the individual to check the sources of all information and always consider the reporter's own agenda.

This becomes extra sensitive when you have to check the information itself and the sources about something you have no knowledge of.