Word: danish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Original Subscribers. Tidende stands in deeper debt to the Danish national character than to Berling family pride. It has never been a great paper, although consistently a good one. Created by royal dispensation, it remained stubbornly loyal to the throne, even after 1904, when the government began printing a newspaper of its own. But time has long since stranded Tidende's taproot conservatism; successive mass movements to the political left have forced the paper into the role of minority voice. Today a Radical-Liberal coalition is in power, and instead of swearing daily allegiance to the throne, Tidende finds...
...Danish spirit of restraint pervades even Copenhagen's two tabloids-Tidende's B.T. and the competitive Ekstra Bladet. Neither prints cheesecake, not for fear of giving offense, but because Danes find such displays boring: there are much better views at the beach. In any other country, King Frederik IX's three unmarried daughters would make sentimental copy, but the tabs mostly ignore them. When Princess Anne-Marie, the youngest and fairest, embarked on a mild romance with Prince Constantin of Greece. B.T. agonized awhile, then decided to be sensational. "Is this more than friendship?" it asked...
Smiling Speech. Tidende's tenure has rendered it largely indifferent to temporal changes. Like the kingdom itself, which has survived with little pain a descent from grandeur (England was once a Danish colony), it expects to last-as long as there are Berlings and Danish kings...
Competitor dailies may quail at a trend toward consolidation that has reduced the ranks of Danish dailies by 50 in the last 15 years. Tidende remains calm. After all, its only true competitor is in the family: the tabloid B.T., which has crept within 2,000 of its parent's 166,000 morning circulation. Besides, Tidende is not just a newspaper. It is a mirror into which the Dane looks each day to see himself. "Tidende is an absolutely decent paper," says Dr. Vincent Naeser, principal stockholder and great-great-grandson of Ernst Berling. "It reflects the Danish mind...
Reasons of state have further narrowed the field. The ugly memories of World War II make it unlikely that a Danish princess would ever marry a German prince, and Britain's royalty is discouraged from marrying Roman Catholics. Also complicating matters is the fact that intermarriage has linked so many of Europe's royal houses. Questioned about a romance with a young prince, one Oxford-educated continental princess snapped: "Come off it. He's my first cousin...