[…] Stormont. * * * The new Kincora inquiry will be chaired by a retired English circuit judge, William Hughes. When asked on ‘The World At One’ ( BBC Radio 4, 18th January 1984) if the inquiry would take evidence on the alleged activities of the intelligence agencies, James Prior, Northern Ireland Secretary of State, […]
[…] the essays on the workings of the media and state propaganda; and of those the most interesting pieces to me are by the journalists: Tim Llewellyn, former BBC reporter, on how the corporation persuades itself that it isn’t pro-Israeli; Yvonne Ridley on waking-up to the reality of what the major media was doing; and […]
[…] Spending Review indicated that, if there is money to spare, it would go to the security and intelligence services and into soft power arrangements (such as the BBC Arabic and Farsi broadcast channels) and not into the sort of military resource that could cope with more than one military intervention at a time. The […]
[…] leads a campaign to join the euro (via two year membership of the ERM) with the great and the good, the CBI, the big multi-nationals and the BBC and ITV. This succeeds narrowly and the UK duly enters the ERM – at around 3 D-marks to the pound – too high for the manufacturing […]
[…] French investigators allegedly showed Diana with her eyes open, apparently conscious and unhurt, and with no sign of blood on her body or her clothes.(33) Some early BBC bulletins even went so far as to describe her as ‘…walking and talking with a broken arm…'(34) Although the initial diagnosis of Diana’s condition may not […]
[…] by the Vatican to shore up the Italian state; and a suggestion that John Connally is linked to Mafia figures. (SD) 22. Two large articles by ex- BBC Journalist Tom Bower on Klaus Barbie and his links with US intelligence. (ST 3rd July, IHT 6th July, 1983). The articles are similar, though the IHT […]
[…] trend to target children; e.g. and however exciting, an espionage exhibition at a national London museum. The tactic is straight out of the marketing manuals. See ‘Ex- BBC and Blair aides hired’, The Independent 1 July 2006. The media played into its hands by publicising the incident, providing thousands of pounds of free advertising. […]
[…] entail a complete revision of extant accounts of that event; and students of the media will have to take on board the chapter on IRD and the BBC – not to mention the extraordinary fact that as late as 1976, 92 British journalists were on IRD’s distribution list. So how many were on the […]
[…] with Lewis’ wife, Jane. The case became known as the ‘It’s a Knockout’ trial because the affair started when the couple organised a local heat of the BBC TV competition.” (Leveller ibid) In a recent report from David McKittrick, Wallace admitted to him that British intelligence had been guilty of serious misbehaviour. This included, […]
[…] remains to be seen. Notes 1 < www.innocent.org.uk > 2 Don Hale, Town Without Pity, (London: Century, 2002), pp.196-7. 3 His story is being made into a BBC TV drama for February/March 2004 called ‘In denial of murder’. 4 < www.pca.gov.uk/investig/others.htm > 5 The new Code of Conduct (Schedule 1 of the Police (Conduct) […]
