Group 3 2014-2015

10.000 Protested in Bergen «Torgalmeningen»

We’re looking through our local newspapers called BT “Bergens Tidende” and BA “Bergens Avisen”

Is the case treated in the same way in both papers?

Are they both covering the story in the same way? No. BT have a lot more depth in their explanation, they’ve written a lot more than BA have.

They are more or less writing about the same, there are some differences though. BT for example has Interviewed a few of the people in the protest, while BA have not. It seems like BA doesn’t really care about the story, but it’s important enough to write something. But as said before, they’ve written a lot less than BT.

Both of the papers mention that the three biggest main employees organizations LO, Unio and YS werw represented, and that there was protesting activities around 200 places in Norway .

They both also mentioned the popular band “Datarock” and told that the band really warmed up the peoples spirit and some were even dancing.

They wrote about mostly the same, but since BA wrote so much less than BT, BT covered a lot more than what BA did, but the little that BA did write, BT did also cover.

BT Interviewed some people which all were against the changes, and that’s why they’re there.

They protested because the government wanted to remove the freedom of the employee, and wanted to give more freedom to the employer. And o fcourse the employee doesn’t like that, and that is why they protested.

“The battle for heavy water”

This sabotage happened under the Second World War, in February 1943, and the sabotage is about to stop the German people in creating heavy water, in Norwegian”Tungtvann”, a necessary ingredient for making nuclear bombs. This is happening at “Vemork” at “Rjukan”. Before this new TV-series came, two other films were created, “The heroes of Telemark” and the first one is also called “The battle for heavy water”, the same name as the last one.

The German man called Werner Heisenberg was a physicist that did not think too much on the consequences, he was working with nuclear technology and the heavy water.

We are going to look at the reviews of the new TV-series ”The battle for heavy water”, and we are looking in the two newspapers “Bergens Tidende” and “Dagsavisen”. Both of the newspapers mean that Werner Heisenberg, played by Christoph Bach has a very central role in the series.

These two papers have written a lot different about it.

“Dagsavisen” means that this series is about much more than the sabotage at “Vemork”. This newspaper also means that there is too little focus especially on one character, his name is “Leif Tronstad” and he is played by “Espen Klouman Høiner”, because they mean that he was the most important person in this sabotage. In general, they criticize the film-director for not letting us know more about the men who completed the action, and, in fact, make the “Heavy water” itself the main character.

What about “Bergens Tidende”? This is what “BT” said about “Leif Tronstad: “Leif Tronstad is a chemical engineer and NTH professor who helped in the construction of the Hydro plant at “Rjukan”, and he is the person who planned the Vemork-action from the UK with the Britons, and he is very central person in the Vemork-action”, and BT therefore is satisfied with the focus on this person.

“Dagsavisen” said that 75 million NOK was not enough to both tell the factual, the balanced and the real faith history, and this history is really a faith heavy, gripping war drama.

To conclude, these two newspapers think a little different about this series , and “BT” gives the serie top score, while “Dagsavisen” gave it a four.

These two papers take up some of up the same things, for example, that Werner Heisenberg, and Leif Tronstad is two central persons, but have some different meanings about them.

Hollywood is still hanging on. Both Michael Bay and Danny Boyle have specific plans for making movie about the spectacular story of how the Norwegian saboteurs stopped Nazi Germany nuclear plans

Both the newspapers talk about how they produce the History; “Bergens tidende” said that this serie is go more thoroughly into the history, than the two other films. Historians will probably put a finger on assumed artistic adaptations, but for a historical interested non-specialist the series give an extremely good insight into the major lines in the game that forms the backdrop for the action.

“Dagsavisen” also claims that the tv-version does not show us the real depiction of the Norwegian heroism and war courage.