The Nordic Media and the Cold War
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THE NORDIC MEDIA AND COLD WAR THE NORDIC MEDIA AND THE COLD WAR The Cold War between the East and West during the period 1945-1991 was a rivalry where the world’s doom constantly emerged as a possible result. It was global and included northern European countries like Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway in different ways. Historians are still discussing how Cold War history should be un- derstood in these countries, but they have rarely been concerned about mass media and communications. Meanwhile, many media scholars have neglected the theme entirely. In this book, these two areas of knowledge are combined in new research on the Nordic mass media, and their significance during the Cold War. A number of controversial topics are covered. Nineteen Nordic scholars sheds new light on Nordic print media in all four countries, but also write about radio and the television broadcasting. Extending the traditional Cold War research on media and communication to include sport, magazines for men, political cartoons, and films, the book lays the foundation for Cold War studies to become an integrated interdiscipli- nary field of knowledge, and a more central part of the Nordic media research than Henrik G. (Eds.) Bastiansen & Rolf Werenskjold before – with countless opportunities for exciting new research, with high relevance to world conflicts in our own time. Henrik G. Bastiansen is Professor at Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway. Rolf Werenskjold is Associate Professor at Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway. THE NORDIC MEDIA University of Gothenburg Box 713, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden AND THE COLD WAR Telephone +46 31 786 00 00 • Fax + 46 31 786 46 55 E-mail [email protected] NORDICOM www.nordicom.gu.se Edited by ISBN 978-91-87957-15-4 Henrik G. 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The Clearinghouse Research Sweden Karin Hellingwerf seeks to bring together and make available insights concerning children’s and young people’s Telephone: +46 31 786 00 00 Guðbjörg Hildur Kolbeins Telephone: +46 31 786 19 92 Telephone: +354 525 42 29 relations with mass media from a variety of perspectives. Fax: +46 31 786 46 55 [email protected] [email protected] Fax: +354 552 68 06 [email protected] Jonas Ohlsson Telephone: +46 31 786 61 25 www.nordicom.gu.se www.nordicom.gu.se [email protected] 1 THE NORDIC MEDIA AND THE COLD WAR THE NORDIC MEDIA AND THE COLD WAR Edited by Henrik G. Bastiansen & Rolf Werenskjold NORDICOM The Nordic Media and the Cold War Henrik G. Bastiansen & Rolf Werenskjold (eds.) © The authors and Nordicom 2015 ISBN 978-91-87957-15-4 Published by: Nordicom University of Gothenburg Box 713 SE 405 30 Göteborg Sweden Cover by: Per Nilsson Picture on front page: “We are the world! We are the children!”, political car- toon by Inge Grødum, published 08.12.1987 in Aftenposten. Printed by: Taberg Media Group AB, Taberg, Sweden, 2015Environmental certification according to ISO 14001I Contents Preface 7 Henrik G. Bastiansen & Rolf Werenskjold Mapping Nordic Media and the Cold War 9 PART ONE: SOVIET INFLUENCE? Chapter 1 Morten Jentoft Radio Moscow – Propaganda from the East – in Norwegian 31 Chapter 2 Raimo Salokangas The Shadow of the Bear. Finnish Broadcasting, National Interest and Self-censorship during the Cold War 67 Chapter 3 Lotta Lounasmeri A Careful Balancing Act. Finnish Culture of Self-censorship in the Cold War 67 Chapter 4 Laura Saarenmaa Political Nonconformity in Finnish Men’s Magazines during the Cold War 101 Chapter 5 Hans Fredrik Dahl The Wallenberg Case as a Cold War Issue 115 Chapter 6 Birgitte Kjos Fonn East-West Conflict, West-West Divide? Western Self-Awareness in a Cold War Dissenter Newspaper 129 PART TWO: SPACE, SPORTS, AND SPIES Chapter 7 Patrik Åker The Space Race in the Swedish Press during the Cold War Era. A Celebration of Transparent Western Television 147 Chapter 8 Peter Dahlén & Tobias Stark Political Resistance on Ice. The 1969 Ice Hockey World Championship in the Swedish and Norwegian Press 167 Chapter 9 Marie Cronqvist Cold War Sweden and the Media. A Historiographical Overview and a Glance Ahead 181 Chapter 10 Paul Bjerke “The Most Disgraceful of All Crimes”.