Why the Swedish Left Lost
An Analysis of the Electoral Fiasco and Lessons for the Democrats

http://www.counterpunch.org/feldman09222010.html
Date Written:  2010-09-22
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2010
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX12108

Analysts and political leaders on the left focus on how the right wing's lies go unfiltered by the establishment mass media. The media bias theory has some plausibility but the limit to the media-bias argument is that the extremist Sweden Democrats largely faced a media blackout but still managed to be one of the biggest winners in the electoral system.

Subject Headings

• Left, The
• Media Bias
• Political Alternatives
• Right, The
• Social Democracy
• Sweden