One of Norway's major news outlets, The Norway Post, reports an almost overwhelmingly negative reaction from readers and letter writers to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to President Barack Obama. Following an article reporting the criticism of the Norwegian Committee's selection, the exasperated Norway Post replied to a reader who asked why they didn't report any positive news about the award with the telling comment:
"The answer is, as we also wrote in the article, there were none. It took nearly 24 hours for the fiirst positive letter to arrive..."
Clearly the Norwegian Post was so rattled by the reaction that they made a mistake in spelling ("fiirst"?). Though the newspaper now claims it has finally received some letters and emails supporting the decision of the 5 Norwegians who selected the Nobel Peace Prize recipient, the sentiment against the choice is 5-1. One might question even this since the newspaper has no email listed anywhere I can find it, even under "Contact". It does, on the other hand, have a colorful picture of a Lutefisk platter on its website front page.
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