SVT Rapport video: Överlevande åter på Utöya. August 19, 2011.
SVT's Thursday night news segment on the survivors returning to Utøya for the first time since the armed attack one month ago, along with dozens of family members of the survivors and deceased and an army of psychologists.
SVT Rapport video: Sorgen fortfarande starkt närvarande i Oslo. August 19, 2011.
SVT news segment from Thursday night on the strong grief still being felt a month later in the Norwegian capital.
http://svtplay.se/v/2507901/rapport/sorgen_fortfarande_starkt_narvarande_i_osloBoth videos available at SVT Play website until August 19, 2012.
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According to the latest information on SVT's website, the following individuals are scheduled to participate:
Music: Kringkastingorkestern, Susanne Sundfør, Leif Ove Andsnes, Karpe Diem, Dumdum Boys, Sivert Høyem, Jarle Bernhoft, Bjørn Eidsvåg, Ingrid Olave, Sissel Kyrkjebø and A-ha.
Readings will be led by actors Aksel Hennie, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Ane Dahl Torp, Adil Khan, Ingrid Bolso Berdal, Sofie Gråbøl and Maria Bonnevie.
The ceremony will be hosted by (reporter/singer) Haddy N'jie.
I've refrained up 'till now from writing about what transpired a month ago in Oslo and Utøya on July 22nd for reasons that are not entirely worth getting into right now. Perhaps in the not-so-distant future.
There were some things, though, that I wanted to share now that I think reflect my frame of mind and what I will eventually post here, and will give you some small guidance if you watch Sunday's national memorial service.
First and foremost, as it always does, timing and opportunity rules everything.
I was reading/watching the LIVE reports of the armed attacks in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik -via Stockholm and Oslo- within mere minutes of it happening, even BEFORE it was being reported in the U.S. media, because of the fact that that particular morning -my time- I was already looking at Swedish news websites like Aftenposten, SVT, TV4, Svenska Dagbladet, Expressen, et al.
I'd also written some recent posts about Norway, so still had the NRK website handy as well on my Bookmark list.
SVT video: NRK:s Peter Svaar direktrapporterar från Oslo. July 22, 2011.
Above, one of the first on-scene reports of the explosion downtown by NRK's Peter Svaar.
Norska TV2 berättar från Utöya. July 22, 2011.
Above, one of the first reports from Norway's TV2 on what happened in Utøya, with lots of helicopter shots outlining the island.
I watched the foreign and domestic coverage for a few hours almost continually for days, constantly amazed at the VERY poor and incorrect reporting being done in the U.S. media on this rapidly-evolving story.
In CNN's case, that is, the U.S. version of CNN, that included reporting low casualty figures hours and hours after it common knowledge among the media on the scene that the grim numbers were FAR HIGHER, an upsetting point that I made in some quick emails to some U.S. media friends around the country, some well-known, that I wanted to know the true scope of the attacks, not the old info being foolishly repeated over-and-over on CNN.
One of the emails I sent was this news about an important Tweet warning being sent around the area as people were warned to turn off their cell phone rings.
My subject header was: FYI: Ominous Twitter warnings went out re Utøya: ”Ring inte ön"
"RING INTE FOLK PÅ UTØYA. De gömmer sig för gärningsmannen. Kopiera statusen! (Ambulansen kommer inte fram ertersom det fortfarande är skottlossning)."
which roughly means:
Do not call the island on your mobile as fake cop re-loading gun in search of people to shoot, is listening for rings from phones. Ambulances won't arrive if shooting is happening.
from Ungdomarnas larm från ön på twitter: Hjälp oss, Nyheter, Aftonbladet
I also watched the LIVE telecast on SVT Play via NRK the following day of the Memorial service at the Oslo Cathedral that drew so many notable figures, as well as the families whose loved ones had perished.
Above, right-to-left: King Harald, Queen Sonja, Princess Märtha Louise and her husband, author Ari Behn.That started at 5 a.m. Miami and was very tough to watch as you'd see people just start crying, tearing-up or sobbing out-of-the-blue.
Especially after the poignant lighting of the candles!
The emotion of the occasion gets to the King and Queen, too.
Above and below are just some of the screen shots of the dozens I took of that church service which I have been holding onto, knowing that it would be impractical to simply post them all, knowing that 99% of you would not have enough context to appreciate what was taking place just from the photos.
While it might not always seem that way to some of you, especially those of you who are in South Florida, I try my best not to be too preachy here on the blog, and I knew that it would be hard to drop ALL those photos on you all, out-of-the-blue, then as now, without seeming either patronizing or...???
Because if you have to explain everything...
So I've held onto them.
But I thought I'd share a few now...
The Royal Family represents.
Above and below, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg addresses those assembled in the cathedral and across the nation.
Above, Prime Minister Stoltenberg singing along.
All screen shots on this page by South Beach Hoosier.
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