“What? Do you really want to hear what I mean?” asked one student. “You can swear we will,” we replied.

The media loves debates about everything from conditions in home care to the imbalance between rural and urban areas to residents of so-called parallel communities. But we hear far too rarely from those we are talking about.

Spinach birds are not exactly an endangered species in Denmark.

Every week, the media is filled with the opinions of the same small group of professional columnists and commentators. They have made their own opinions a living and occupy a large part of the newspapers and the soft sofas of talk shows.