The Norway Post reports that imports from Israel increased 15 percent despite a boycott led by the country’s Socialist Left Party.
Could the Norwegian media have anything to do with this? When one Norwegian province voted to boycott Israeli products in 2005, journalist Kgell Arild Nilsin attributed it to biased reporting. Any readers in Norway care to comment?
(Hat tip: Daily Alert)
UPDATE Jan. 23: Norwegian blogger Jan Haugland of Secular Blasphemy comments:
This bias has undoubtedly contributed to the echo chamber mentality where socialists believed this was something they would make people go along with, and also that the campaign gathered at least some lip service. It’s just hard to fool all the people all the time.
(Hat tip: mail from Soccer Dad)
