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Israel’s PR victory shames news broadcasters By Greg Philo
The propaganda battle over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached a new level of intensity. In 2004 the Glasgow University Media Group published a major study on TV coverage of the Second Intifada and its impact on public understanding. We analysed about 200 programmes and questioned more than 800 people. Our conclusion: reporting was dominated by… Continue reading
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Video: Bias at the BBC BY Lauren Booth
30 May 2011 — Uprooted Palestinians http://www.presstv.ir/player/player1.swf Continue reading
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Media Lens: Bad News From The BBC – Part 2: The ‘John Motson Approach To Analysing News’
By now we had given Danahar several opportunities to respond seriously to highly credible analysis of BBC News reporting, including its heavily biased and misleading coverage of the Israeli killing of nine peace activists after he had taken over as BBC Middle East Bureau Chief. Danahar did not seem able or willing to answer sensibly. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 26-27 May 2011
27 May 2011 — williambowles.info 27 May 2011 Mathaba: NATO Defies Africa By Intensifying Bombardment Of Libya Morning Star: Cameron escalates Libya war Dissident Voice: The International Criminal Court: A Help or a Hindrance? Morning Star: A blatant shift to overt war Mathaba: Day 70: Updates on War Against Libya and Africa, May 27 BBC: Continue reading
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Media Lens: Bad News From The BBC – Part 1: ‘Replete With Imbalance And Distortion’
One of the main headlines on the BBC news homepage earlier this month read, ‘Violence erupts at Israel borders’. Israeli soldiers had shot dead at least 12 protesters and injured dozens more. BBC ‘impartiality’ decreed that the brutal killings were presented almost as an act of nature, a volcanic eruption that simply happened. Continue reading
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BBC is ‘confusing cause and effect’ in its Israeli coverage By Tim Llewellyn
More than two years after Operation Cast Lead, the BBC continues to confuse cause and effect – Israeli attacks are always reported as retaliation to Palestinian violence or rockets, and the idea that Palestinian rockets, however ineffective, are armed resistance to Israel’s hammering from land, sea and air is rarely broadcast. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 21-23 May 2011
22 May 2011 — williambowles.info 23 May 2011 Dissident Voice: Protecting Us from Our Freedoms: Congress Set to Renew Patriot Act Spy Provisions Morning Star: Rebel death squad body count grows SCF: Moscow claims NATO’s action in Libya inadmissible Global Research: Former U.S. congresswoman McKinney speaks on state TV in Libya BBC: VIDEO: Inside a Continue reading
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Britain plotted regime change in Iraq as early as 2001 By Robert Stevens
Previously classified documents released into the public domain reveal that Britain’s MI6 planned a coup against then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, just months after 9/11. This was despite official acknowledgement that there was no connection between the Hussein regime and Al Qaeda. The documents also confirm that the quest to secure stable oil supplies was… Continue reading
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Spain Newslinks 19-22 May 2011
22 May 2011 — williambowles.info 22 May 2011 BBC: Spanish polls open amid protests Spain is voting in regional elections overshadowed by mass protest rallies in cities across the country.” Elections in Spain underway after massive protests His government has been squeezed by Spain’s 21% unemployment rate, the highest in Western Europe, and a financial Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 20-21 May 2011
21 May 2011 — williambowles.info 21 May 2011 SCF: Moscow thinks NATO seeks regime change in Libya SCF: NATO planes strike military vessels in three Libyan ports RT: What should be on agenda for G8 summit in France? NY speaks Amnesty UK: Obama speech: USA must `learn from mistakes of past` in Middle East and Continue reading
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Pirates of the Mediterranean By William Bowles
In a very real (and I hazard a guess, legal) sense the BBC is complicit (as is the rest of the MSM) in the committing of war crimes not only by accepting the idea that force is the only means of resolving conflict, but also by actively promoting this view in its ‘news’ coverage. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 19-20 May 2011
20 May 2011 — williambowles.info 20 May 2011 Amnesty UK: Obama speech: USA must `learn from mistakes of past` in Middle East and North Africa BBC: Libyan troops ‘shot photographer’ alleges family BBC: VIDEO: Footage of air strikes on Libyan warships SCF: Will NATO Forces Under the UN Flag Take the Jamahiriya’s Place in Libya Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 17-18 May 2011: WikiLeaks Reveals US Wanted to Keep Russia out of Libyan Oil
18 May 2011 — williambowles.info 18 May 2011 Mathaba: WikiLeaks Reveals US Wanted to Keep Russia out of Libyan Oil Socialist Worker: Left to die in the Mediterranean Mathaba: Imperialist bombardment, assault on Libya continues Mathaba: Mass media begin to stop the great lie about Libya and Gaddafi Mathaba: The real reasons for NATO’s attacks Continue reading
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The truth about ‘civilized transitions’ By William Bowles
This is what it comes down to: A TV ‘news’ presenter reveals in all its starkness, how the Empire corrupts totally. Here we have an apparently intelligent and educated person dismissing the leader of a country as if he’s just another expendable piece of the Empire’s junk. ‘Yeah, why you don’t just get rid of… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 9-10 May 2011
10 May 2011 — williambowles.info 10 May 2011 BBC: UN seeks pause to Libya fighting Mathaba: Backdoor for foreign troops into Libya Mathaba: NATO’s All-White “International Community” Versus the World on Libya RT: France: land of love, wine and warmongering SCF: NATO renews strikes in Libya SCF: Hundreds of Libyan refugees feared dead after ship Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 3-4 May 2011
4 May 2011 — williambowles.info 4 May 2011 RT: NATO discusses ground operation, Libya promises hell RT: “We are repeating past mistakes in Libya” – British MP The Independent: UK-funded aid ship docks in Misrata Stop Nato: Updates on Libyan war: May 4: “” Global Research: Humanitarian Neo-colonialism: Framing Libya and Reframing War Mathaba News: Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 1-2 May 2011: NATO Bombers butcher Gadaffi relatives
2 May 2011 — williambowles.info 2 May 2011 SCF: The Agony of Libya: What can be done (II) SCF: Libya Faces Attacks Against Civilian Infrastructures and Tough Information Warfare Mathaba News: Join The Fact Finding Mission in Libya Mathaba News: US Intervention in Syria Stop NATO News: May 1, 2011 1 May 2011 Global Researcg: Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 20-21 April 2011
21 April 2011 20:38 — williambowles.info 21 April 2011 Mathaba News: The War in Libya: Race, “Humanitarianism,” and the Media Finally, an in-depth analysis of the racist source of the “Libyan uprising”… bear in mind too that these fake Twitter accounts, with commercially produced avatars, are part of a new software for the purpose. Twitter Continue reading
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Libya newslinks 15 April 2011
15 April 2011 — creative-i.info Global Research: The West Versus China: A New Cold War Begins on Libyan Soil The Real News: Kucinich: Obama Libya War Violates Constitution and UN Resolution Dissident Voice: Egypt’s Islamists: The Big Bad Wolf Dissident Voice: Medvedev vs. Putin Dissident Voice: If You Want to End Injustice in the US, Continue reading
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Libya newslinks 15 April 2011
15 April 2011 — creative-i.info Global Research: The West Versus China: A New Cold War Begins on Libyan Soil The Real News: Kucinich: Obama Libya War Violates Constitution and UN Resolution Dissident Voice: Egypt’s Islamists: The Big Bad Wolf Dissident Voice: Medvedev vs. Putin Dissident Voice: If You Want to End Injustice in the US, Continue reading
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