{"id":1341,"date":"2005-12-28T21:50:45","date_gmt":"2005-12-28T21:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/12\/studio_69\/"},"modified":"2005-12-28T21:50:45","modified_gmt":"2005-12-28T21:50:45","slug":"studio_69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/studio_69\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0743449916&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nThis is the fist Annika Bengtzon book published in the UK, but might actually be the second or third in publishing order in Sweden. Whichever way around, it&#8217;s the first in chronological order.<br \/>\nAnyway, junior reporter Annikia is introduced in this book working for a fictional Stockholm evening newspaper. She gets randomly assigned to a murder victim discovered in a park, and keeps at it, digging up new information. At the same time, there&#8217;s a political connection, and a radio programme, Studio 69, is reporting the same case with its own agenda.<br \/>\nMarklund, according to the publishers&#8217; blurb on the cover, is a working Swedish journalist, and if Swedish newspapers are really put together in the manner described in both this book and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001431.html\">Paradise<\/a>, then I worry for them. I realise that British law is a lot more restrictive in what can and cannot be said in regard to an ongoing investigation that other countries, but there&#8217;s something of a free-for-all in Sweden according to this.<br \/>\nI also detect that Marklund is no great fan of Swedish state television. In a prologue, seemingly written for the international readership, Marklund explains that only relatively recently has the broadcast media been given a commercial competitor. This hasn&#8217;t come too soon for Marklund (or her protagonist). I note that in the acknowledgments, it&#8217;s producers from TV4 that get the credit rather than state television.<br \/>\nOverall, an interesting book. Annika&#8217;s a little too highly strung for my liking, but she&#8217;s in a male dominated world, and as an outsider, it&#8217;s hard to know what kind of obstacles women have had to overcome professionally in Sweden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fist Annika Bengtzon book published in the UK, but might actually be the second or third in publishing order in Sweden. Whichever way around, it&#8217;s the first in chronological order. Anyway, junior reporter Annikia is introduced in this book working for a fictional Stockholm evening newspaper. She gets randomly assigned to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}