"Independent" Swedish media

The major problem during my conflict with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences was to make them following the legal procedures. Several colleagues insistently recommended me to contact Swedish newspapers and TV. They were sure that the main goal of Swedish mass media is to honestly inform public about what is going on in Sweden and abroad. I already had an experience with Swedish media and was not that optimistic. Few years ago my Russian friend was accused of being a spy (he must be Russian, otherwise who would believe to the story?). The information about his “spying activities” were changed several times: from being suspected in an intention to kill all Swedish potato with dangerous virus; to the accusation of biking around Uppsala on his old bicycle and gathering information about the “secret objects”. Nevertheless, some newspapers contacted me asking for an interview, but when they found out that my point of view differ from the “correct” one, they immediately lost their interest.

Well, since my colleagues were very sure that that was very-very atypical for Sweden they insisted on contacting Swedish media. The more media we sent the information about what is going on in SLU the longer became faces of my optimistic colleagues. None even replied us! When at last the local TV station sent a crew to make the interview my colleagues became very happy, and clapping me on the shoulder, they ensured me that now we attract public attention to the problem and SLU will be forced to follow the rules. However, the short story about the conflict between SLU and a student has never been shown.

Probably, my case is a very small problem to make Swedish public be aware of. However, how one can explain that Swedish media refuse to publish even comments of Ambassadors on the articles, which accused other countries in “bad deeds”. The answer is: the only one point of view should be translated to the Swedish public. The “correct” one!

Below is the comment of the Russian Embassy on refuse of the Swedish newspaper to publish the reply of the Ambassador Mr. Neverov to their article (Google-translation from Swedish):

“In connection with the recent tragic events in Boston wrote on Apr. 21, 2013 "Dagens Nyheter" editor Peter Wolodarski an article, the Russian Federation's Ambassador to Sweden Igor Neverov preparing a response notice, the "Daily News" chose not to publish the reference to "... the Russia has a different perspective on the last decades of conflict in Chechnya than that found expression in the Daily News last ... not for us to make room for a rebuttal "(signed John Aman, director of the master editor). Given that Russia's perspective is not so well known in Swedish media took the ambassador's decision to publish the above answer, the article on the Embassy website.”

Now which country should be accused in totalitarianism?