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Staifo, Abraham

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Göteborgs-Posten - Sweden | 14/11/2008

A blog won't give you an election victory

With an eye to their own parliamentary elections in 2010, the Swedish parties followed the US election campaign closely and now plan to make more use of electronic media. "But the parties are forgetting a few important aspects," writes Abraham Staifo in the daily Göteborgs-Posten. "A blog can't make a policy and YouTube can't make a man. ... The parties' greatest miscalculation is that they are attributing too much importance to the blogosphere as a place for winning votes. ... What is important for Sweden's parties is not which medium they use, but what message they want to convey. Moreover, it would be wiser to take conditions in Sweden into account rather than becoming fixated on those in the US. Sure, young voters can be best reached through the Internet. And the party that has the best chance of winning is the one that can pull its own [Barack] Obama out of its sleeve. On the other hand, copies are never as good as the originals."

Göteborgs-Posten - Sweden | 09/11/2007

Finnish gun laws under fire

An 18-year-old killed nine people and injured 12 in a massacre at the Jokela secondary school in Tuusula, Finland. The Swedish newspaper criticises Finland's gun laws, which allow 15-year-olds to obtain a gun license. It points out that 38,000 teenagers can therefore purchase a firearm at their local arms dealer. "It's an oversimplification to lay the blame on the internet and violent films. Sickness, a lack of empathy and the collapse of internal inhibitions are to blame, but also the general attitude toward weapons and the possibility of purchasing them. Restrictive gun-control laws must be introduced. Finland, where 56 out of 100 persons own a firearm, lacks such laws. Finland was exempted from the EU law under which you have to be 18 years of age before you can obtain a license. Now it has reason to regret this."

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