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| | Synoptique - Moss on Your Transmitter : TV in the Faroe Islands |
 | | The language of the islands is Faroese, which is very close to Icelandic (so close that the two languages are basically mutually intelligible); most Faroese also speak Danish, which they are required to learn in school. |
 | | Speaking of life on one of the Faroes’ southernmost island, he told me that he would tell his correspondents, “if you are in Suðroy, and you see a boat coming, make an interview with him. |
 | | Far from being a barren nowhere, the Faroes are a lush, rocky cultural landscape that is emerging as a crucial area of struggle for a definition, or re-definition of the role we want mass media to have in everyday life. |
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