[…] 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, […]
[…] that is Field Marshall Montogmery of Alamein, the commander of the Eighth Army during the Second World War. From 1931 to 1947 he was employed by the BBC in Northern Ireland in various capacities, including Assistant Musical Director and Conductor of the BBC Northern Ireland Symphony Orchestra (1933-38). From 1952-71 he was a member […]
[…] miss five years earlier. Only the veteran journalist Alastair Cooke gave the 1998 crisis any serious discussion in two editions of his ‘Letter from America’, broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 15 June and 11 August this year. The story is instructive on two levels. First because it suggests that it may be wrong […]
[…] Office-funded) adjunct to their ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ initiatives. The board includes: Princess Anne, Lords Brittan, Carr, Hunt and Merlyn-Rees, Sir Geoffrey Mulcahy (Kingfisher plc), Michael Hastings ( BBC), Nathaniel Sloane (Accenture), Matt Baggott (Deputy Chief Constable, West Midlands Police), Liz Wicksteed (Home Office) and Sir Stanley Kalms (Treasurer of the Conservative Party).(7) Demos brought […]
[…] Iraq as part of Britain’s ‘hearts and minds’ campaign: a sort of movie equivalent to British troops losing 9 – 3 to the Basrah football squad. ( BBC report following the fall of Basrah.) 4 The Times 7 April 2003. 5 The Observer, 12 January 2003. This is a wholly different conflict, albeit ripe […]
[…] in St Helier, Jersey’s capital.’ 10 ‘Foreign Office officials are examining ways of using public and private funding to turn the BBC’s struggling international TV news channel, BBC World, into a global player. . . its existence would promote “good governance” and help raise Britain’s international profile’ – The Guardian 22 July 2002 11 […]
Chris Moore Marino Books, (an imprint of Mercier Press), 16 Hume St., Dublin 2, Ireland. £6.99 Chris Moore worked for the BBC in Northern Ireland during most of ‘the troubles’ and should have been ideally suited to write a decent account of Kincora and its surrounding scandals. Alas, this book is a complete turkey. […]
