April 25, 2006
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Media Lens: BBC News Website Editor Responds On Amnesty Coverage
25 April 2006 — Media Lens On April 21, we published a Rapid Response Media Alert: ‘Demonising Iran – BBC Distorts Amnesty International Press Release,’ (www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060421_demonising_iran.php). Yesterday, we received this response from Steve Herrmann, editor of the BBC News website: Continue reading
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Mixed(up) Messages By William Bowles
The hysteria being generated around Iran’s alleged nuclear ‘ambitions’ (the media’s favourite newspeak word these days) serves several purposes; one, it conveniently diverts attention away from the situation in Iraq; two, it acts as a warning to any other country challenging US imperialism’s increasingly desperate bid for global domination and, it also serves to divert… Continue reading