[…] a bad few months for the British media’s relationship with the psy-ops boys in SIS. First the BBC’s David Shukman fronted a piece apparently planted on the BBC by them which claimed that an African company Oryx was a source of funds for al-Qaeda. Oops! Name confusion. Cue large legal action by Oryx. (4) […]
[…] own merits “According to the UN, opium production peaked in 2004 to near record levels of 4,200 metric tonnes – nearly 90% of the world market” ( BBC News, 4/26/05, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4487433.stm). The former dominance of the Burma drug trade by the Taiwan-based Guomindang (GMD) has now been replaced in press accounts by the control […]
[…] Seasoned non-spook diplomats were always annoyed some spook analysis was based on recycling overseas newspaper articles (open source). The modern equivalent is mining the net. See also BBC Ten O clock News, ‘Online Jihadism’, 25 October 2006 BAA rather ruined the airport safety message with point 2 of its Important Information to travellers, reading: […]
[…] sensitive.’ His notes include allegations of corrupt behaviour by Councillor Frank McGrath, deputy Labour leader of Preston Council. He noted his press contacts as Andrew Jennings of BBC and Roger Ratcliffe of Sunday Times. . 1984 Murrin reported meeting Tom Cato, a Tory businessman from Fleetwood, who was a client of Chris More’s detective […]
[…] anti-Soviet propaganda and espionage campaign into other European countries. A direct invitation to that is being issued by BIS agents through publications and by the radio corporation BBC. My attention in this case was caught by an article published in the London newspaper Financial Times where on one hand conclusions are drawn concerning the […]
[…] Washington years have eased them up the career tree back in London. Michael White, still busy dissing any possibility of political conspiracy to his Guardian readers and BBC listeners despite being a Washington hack during President Reagan’s IranContra years, is probably the worst of them in this regard. But his old Guardian colleague, Jim […]
[…] thousand years later people still understand them to reflect reality. Gilligan would probably not want to be seen as a latter-day biblical evangelist but he (and the BBC) suffered mainly because of what philosophers might call a category error. Academics and lawyers (including but not only Tony Blair and Lord Hutton) examined what he […]
[…] BBC1 and BBC2 showed on their main evening news bulletins a rather lengthy piece concerning America’s latest development in weaponry — the non-lethal weapons concept. David Shukman, BBC Defence Correspondent, interviewed (Retired) U.S. Army Colonel John B. Alexander and Janet Morris, two of the main proponents of the concept. (1) The concept of non-lethal […]
[…] thankfully things have changed and we have recently seen a growing list of books well worth buying. Here’s another one. Liz Curtis’ account of British misinformation and BBC Censorship tactics on Ireland deserves close attention. Well documented, with excellent notation and index, there can be no argument with its contents. As Kincoragate shows, the […]
[…] of détente, he was a politician who gave early encouragement to Perle, Ledeen, Frank Gaffney (a member of the Reagan administration and since much used by the BBC), Carl Gershman (see below) and a whole swathe of politicos and propagandists later to be known as Neoconservatives. Travelling from Britain with Chalfont were Brian Crozier, […]
