I trust readers will treat Swedish press ombudsman Ola Sigvardsson’s statement that “almost everything is allowed to print” with the bucket of salt it deserves. Next year, the government is to replace across-the-board subsidies to all media outlets with selective grants decided by a committee of (guess what?) Moving on to the international MSM, there’s more anti-Trumpoganda from those masters of fake news, Agence France-Presse. AFP’s Sunday Nation front-page headline reads: “Trump at odds with rest of world as violent G20 summit wraps up in Hamburg”. Your Sunday edition provides further proof, if proof were still needed, that dependence on the MSM can severely damage one’s mental health.

Source: The Nation Bangkok July 10, 2017 18:00 UTC