war crimes
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Media Lens: BBC still Ignoring Evidence of War Crimes in Iraq
An earlier media alert, ‘Doubt Cast on BBC Claims Regarding Fallujah’ (April 18, 2005; www.medialens.org/alerts/05/050418_doubt_cast_on_bbc.php) noted that Boaden’s Newswatch article failed to address the many specific and detailed allegations of atrocities committed by US forces in their assault on Fallujah last November. Moreover, statements made to us by Human Rights Watch had cast doubt on… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Doubt Cast on BBC Claims Regarding Fallujah
The BBC has again failed to address the many specific allegations we forwarded to them of atrocities committed by US forces in their assault on Fallujah last November. We return to this point below. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Media Complicity in War Crimes
On February 13, The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), an international peoples’ initiative, declared much of the Western media guilty of deception and incitement to violence in its reporting on Iraq. The tribunal, meeting in Rome, made its pronouncement after taking testimony from independent journalists, media professors, activists, and a member of the European Parliament. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Email Reveals BBC Contempt For Public Complaints
What does it say when a senior BBC journalist can dismiss testimony relating to our government’s involvement in war crimes as merely “these sorts of things”? And what does it say that a journalist can suggest that it might be an option to simply ignore a public complaint of such seriousness? Continue reading
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Weasel words by the dogs of straw By William Bowles
We have yet to discover the true scale of the slaughter that the US wrought on Fallujah but one thing is clear, if we rely on the British government for the numbers we’ll never know the truth. Continue reading
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Embedded in a Media Fantasy World: The case against objective reporting By William Bowles
26 September 2004 I recently had a brief exchange with the Washington correspondent for the Independent, Andrew Buncombe over his ‘paper’s coverage of events in Iraq. Now although I’ve never actually met Andy, and I’m sure he’s a decent fellow, I brought to his attention a recent ‘War Report’ compiled by an Iraqi journalist that Continue reading
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Of cluster bombs and piss: two sides of the same coin By William Bowles
The ‘tradition’ of pissing on the enemies of the empire has a long and ignoble history. British troops, when faced with Ghandi’s non-violent resistance to the colonisers, recognising that murdering them didn’t work, took to pissing on them instead, in order to get them to move from the vast sit-down demos the Indian anti-colonial movement… Continue reading
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Media Lens: US and UK Politicians Overlooked in Crimes Against Humanity
Should US and UK politicians be brought to account for alleged crimes against humanity in Iraq, Serbia, Vietnam, Cambodia and elsewhere? Last week’s appearance by Slobodan Milosevic, the former leader of Yugoslavia, in front of the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, was the spur for an Independent on Sunday ‘Focus’ news report by… Continue reading
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