Jon Snow, Channel 4 news anchor, reveals his anger on Radio 4 at the news blackout on Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan. On a programme stacked with pro-war journalists, he was asked by media analyst Steve Hewlett how he felt when he found out there had been an embargo. Snow replied:
I was absolutely enraged. I […]
Lauren Booth, a Palestine campaigner and freelance journalist who writes for the Mail and Mail on Sunday, has been trapped in Gaza for the past two weeks after breaking the Israeli blockade in a boat laden with medical supplies. The Israeli authorities are now preventing her from leaving, ostensibly because she entered the country illegally.
Two […]
The United Nations has found convincing evidence, based on the testimony of eyewitnesses, that some 90 civilians were killed, including 60 children, by Nato bombers in Afghanistan on August 21.
The UN investigation found that “the destruction from aerial bombardment was clearly evident with some seven to eight houses having been totally destroyed and serious damage […]
Last month the press reported how friendly fire in a bungled assault killed a British soldier in Helmand last year. They all neglected to remind their readers, however, how they first reported the operation – as a noble tale of heroism and comradeship.
In January 2007 the British papers went wild over a “Rescue bid by heroes […]
With Peter Wilby, columnist for the Media Guardian, formely editor of the New Statesman and the Independent on Sunday
Tom de Waal, Caucasus editor at the Institute of War and Peace Reporting
Stop the War Coalition speaker (tbc)
Tuesday September 9
7pm
Pearson Lecture Theatre
University College London, Gower Street WC1
Nearest tube: Warren Street or Euston
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The Guardian has revealed that a Whitehall counter-terrorism unit is targeting the BBC and other media organisations as part of a new global propaganda push.
The Guardian correctly notes: “The disclosure that a Whitehall counter-terrorism propaganda operation is promoting material to the BBC and other media will raise fresh concerns about official news management in a […]
Most British newspapers carried a story on August 26 about a young Iraqi woman who allegedly was a suicide bomber, but who surrendered to police in Baqouba rather than blow herself up.
There were serious doubts about the story’s authenticity, however. For example, the Metro and the Telegraph reported that the circumstances of her arrest […]
The Guardian’s Peter Wilby has again hit the nail on the head:
Whenever, to coin a phrase, a war breaks out in a faraway country of which we know little, I am reminded of a news editor I once worked for. He would go to a wall map showing the location of the paper’s correspondents, produce […]
Every journalist owes the Daily Mail’s Peter Oborne a debt of gratitude for last week’s Dispatches documentary exposing Islamophobia in our media. From the journalists on the Express and Star who refused to publish a page of inflammatory nonsense about Muslims, to the staff on the Barking and Dagenham Recorder facing foul-mouthed abuse from the […]
The Guardian made a welcome mention on its pages on July 1 that Israel is “an undeclared nuclear power”. But you would struggle to learn from the British media that Israel has a huge nuclear arsenal. In the prolific discussion of Iran and Syria’s nuclear programme in our media the past 2 months, this fact […]
