If a year (compressed in, well, just under 100 minutes) in life of a declining Danish tabloid newspaper sounds to you like fun viewing, watch this documentary. Otherwise, don’t bother.
The central story, if there is one, deals with the media coverage of two Danes held captive by Somalian pirates (the four fellow Filipino hostages were not even mentioned in the film). Naturally, the prominence is given to the newspaper’s stance (“if not for us, the world would forget about Eddie and Søren”) while the alternative points of view (“you guys are not helping”) are pretty much dismissed. In the end, one of the released hostages filed a complaint, Ekstra Bladet was reprimanded, the sales continued to fall, all in the midst of general apathy. Meanwhile, Shipcraft, the owner of the hijacked vessel, was “cleared of any wrongdoing”. Great.
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