November 26, 2008

The first week of the Eutropian Conference

Soap operas, technical problems, irony and rivalry between newspapers.

Concerning the first week of the Eutropian Conference on Immigration, we have to say that there occured no serious problems.

The first two tele-conferences itself were so harmonic that The Brynn spoke of “the next best soap opera”. The Eutropian Independent on the other hand praised the delegates´ “hope for a productive and cooperative summit”.

However, both newspapers of Eutropia criticized the slow progress to discussions on important issues. The Brynn even declares that the citizens money has been wasted.

Whereas, The Eutropian Independent focused on reporting about “minor technical difficulties” with the software Moodle, The Brynn this week wrote about the irony that was not tolerated by some delegates.

The only more serious problem can be seen in the upcoming rivalry between the two newspapers of Eutropia: The Eutropian Independent published a provocative news bulletin critizing that the first edition of the Brynn was not released as planned. The Brynn felt offended by The Eutropian Independent writing that “this fact does not support the idea of a well ongoing newspaper”. As a consequence, The Brynn fought back: “if those [the journalists of The Eutropian Independent] are unable to find a newspaper online, are they competent enough to report reliable news to their readers?”

As media watchdogs, we want to make clear that we consider rivalry between newspapers as a natural and essential part of business. Now we all know about the political situation in Brynnland and thus why The Brynn was not able to publish their first edition earlier. There is no need to dramatize the problems anymore. However, we can not support any inadequate, offensive provocations which offend the human rights. In order to prevent those kind of unnecessary problems we will in future take further measures.

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