The World in Words 69: Free speech in the Netherlands, South Africa and Denmark
After Joe Wilson’s “you lie!”, after Kanye West at the MTV awards, after Serena Williams’ outburst at the US Open, you may think, enough already with nasty speech. Well, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet: this week, a report on offensive – really offensive – Dutch cartoons. Also, a South African gadfly-journalist upsets just about everyone. And the Danish tourist bureau stages a faux one night stand. It was supposed to be a come-on to foreign visitors; instead it had Danish politicians trying to curb the speech of their own government.
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