[PDF file]: […] to Bloody Sunday, in as much as the British state’s colonial psy-ops techniques, introduced into Northern Ireland after the shootings helped provoke a kind of insurgency, the BBC broadcast on 22 March a radio documentary, ‘The spin war in Northern Ireland’ about the British state’s psychological operations in Northern Ireland. This may still be […]
[PDF file]: […] to cut to describing an afternoon tea in Devon, taken by Peter Gillman and his wife Leni11 as guests of Celia Adams, widow of Michael Adams, a BBC and Guardian Middle East correspondent. Adams had been detained in Egypt with David Holden during the 1956 Suez Crisis. They were friends in Beirut later. Celia […]
[…] to cut to describing an afternoon tea in Devon, taken by Peter Gillman and his wife Leni11 as guests of Celia Adams, widow of Michael Adams, a BBC and Guardian Middle East correspondent. Adams had been detained in Egypt with David Holden during the 1956 Suez Crisis. They were friends in Beirut later. Celia […]
[…] assessment of the subversive influence in the media in the 1970s: ‘There have been virtually no instances of subversion in the presentation of new bulletins by the BBC or the I B A companies. The reasons no doubt lies in the careful selection of key personnel by management….’ (p. 663, emphasis added) But he […]
[PDF file]: […] Rahman had admitted in prison he would have carried out the attack had he been able to.’17 (emphasis added ) Let us examine Rahman’s connections and abilities. BBC news reported18 how the ‘plot’ was ‘foiled’ by the security services and stated: ‘Last summer Rahman was homeless in London after falling out with both his […]
[PDF file]: […] following four weeks but it was extensive: touring marginal seats in a converted double decker bus and distributing a million leaflets urging young 5 Philip Hayton became BBC correspondent in Washington DC, moved from there to cover South Africa and Rhodesia in the ‘70s and later turned up as BBC correspondent in Tehran during […]
[PDF file]: […] the EU. This has happened alongside a coarsening and collapse of most of the UK media into a kind of right-wing mud-wrestling pit, into which even the BBC eventually tumbled with their ludicrous, and wholly disproportionate, ideas about ‘balance’.6 Stephens doesn’t really say very much about the context within which the decisions of the […]
[…] has reached issue 167.37 There will be something there of interest if you are reading this. Owen Jones has an important piece about the pro-Israel bias of BBC reporting of the assault on Gaza.38 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]
[…] has reached issue 167.37 There will be something there of interest if you are reading this. Owen Jones has an important piece about the pro-Israel bias of BBC reporting of the assault on Gaza.38 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]
[…] buy larger homes.’ Iraq invasion: tenth anniversary 30 M onday 18 March was quite a day for those of us against the invasion of Iraq. On the BBC News Website, Peter Taylor conveyed the central gist of his programme later that night on Panorama about the intelligence failures which led the leadership of the […]
