[…] net result may have been to omit words or qualifying statements or to present as certainties matters which were only probabilities misleading, though not, as the BBC, asserted, mendacious’ (p. 76) I leave it to the reader to consider the distinction between misleading and mendacious. This view is only of interest if the […]
[…] issue 8, and looked it up. This is what they had published: ‘In Lobster 26 Robin Ramsay recalls the one section that was apparently cut from a BBC Panorama documentary on MI5 et al in 1981. This was Gordon Winter, BOSS agent, declaring: “British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing […]
[…] congressmen. Chairing the relevant committee in Congress, Phil Gramm was among the leading beneficiaries. His wife, Wendy Gramm, had retired as head of the regulatory body governing futures trading in commodities and became head of Enron’s audit committee. She had a relatively small salary but rather large stock options.. BBC News, Friday, November 5, 1999
[…] Blunt’s memoirs are apparently safely locked up in the British Library along with the Magna Carta. Out this year is Dear Anthony by American John Costello and BBC researcher Cherry Hughes. Hughes, who has spent three years researching the book, says “He was a lot more important than has so far been admitted. It’s […]
[…] documentary The Power of Nightmares. His remarks were nowhere to be seen or heard when BBC1 broadcast highlights of the ceremony later that evening. (Anon., ‘Row as BBC cuts Bafta speech’, The Guardian 18 April 2005) These include former Tory Defence Secretary and Foreign Secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind (non executive Chairman); ex-CIA operative, Jerry […]
[…] ground and if anyone has some on the IPLO, I would be interested to see it. Her talk that night is available, incidentally, in printed form, from BBC Educational Developments, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS. No price is given on my copy. One variant of which is the ‘Kurdish extremist threat’. The Sunday […]
[…] MI6 is rigging the House of Commons procedure in favour of “Red Ken”.’ Quite soon after this article appeared Neil Grant, then a schoolteacher, was offered and accepted a job at the BBC with Panorama, where he is now a producer, and ceased to supply Livingstone with questions about the British spooks and Northern Ireland.
[…] exposed by its editor-in-chief, Mr Jacques Verges, as ‘agent provocateur’. Mr Gibson then married a white woman in London, had broadcast on the African Service of the BBC, had worked for CBS news in New York and Agence France Presse in Paris as a specialist in African affairs.” (pp431-2) There were stories, disinformation, linking […]
[…] is the wife of a local Tory party worker. The case of another Bedfordshire woman with Alzheimer’s who was apparently tricked into voting was taken up by BBC news. Louisa Garrett was seen on TV claiming that she ‘doesn’t really know’ who she voted for, but that she had ‘voted for Tony Blair and […]
[…] (some of his own staff referred to him as ‘Mr Prime Minister’), but Wyatt provides some additional touches. ‘Duke’ Hussey, it seems, only became chairman of the BBC on Murdoch’s strong recommendation (Vol. 1, p. 201). More important was what Murdoch could do for Thatcher and what she could do for him. On 11 […]
