[…] CHRONICLE 35-46 DIR. PRACTICAL JOURNALISM LONDON UNIVERSITY 39-40 DEPUTY DIR. MINISTRY OF INFORMATION: SET UP GLOBE NEWS AGENCY 41-42 REP. OF HULTON PRESS IN SOUTH AMERICA 42-48 BBC LATIN AMERICAN SERVICE, CHMN. NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS LTD. AUTHOR COLES, S.J.W. ‘JACK’ IRD 40-50’S HEAD OF STAR NEWS AGENCY PAKISTAN -60’S INFORMATION OFFICE CRO […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 26.5.66 1934 JOURNALIST ON SEVERAL PAPERS 1940 SOE FORCE 136 (LAOS) FRENCH RESISTANCE 1945 WAR CRIMES COMMISSION. INDO CHINA, BURMA AND NW EUROPE 1948 DAILY MIRROR 1950 BBC FOREIGN NEWS, HEAD OF PRESS DIV MALAYAN INFORMATION SERVICES 1959 SENIOR INFO OFFICER CRO 1961 1ST SEC (INFO) FREETOWN, 1ST SEC (INFO) CANBERRA 1963 PRINCIPAL INFO […]
[…] For all his deconstruction and demystification, Miller has not done enough to show the allegiance to the state among media personnel. Daphne Park, for example, of the BBC Board of Governors, is not described as former senior MI6 officer. Paul Wilkinson is frequently quoted, but there is nothing on his part in the disinformation […]
Someone pointed out to me that Lobster 42 ranged from Gladstone to UFOs, a spread probably unique today. But this range has a downside: things get picked up and then sidelined. One such area is the field bounded on one side by what is known as mind control and on the other by non-lethal technologies. […]
[…] which began: ‘A Spinwatch investigation has revealed that journalists working for the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) have been commissioned to provide news reports to the BBC. The BBC has been using these reports as if they were genuine news. In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence as […]
[…] Debretts and Burkes Peerage, and many other books on intelligence during the war. ABRAMS, MARK ALEXANDER B 27.4.06 LSE, REFORM 1933 RESEARCH DEPT LONDON PRESS EXCHANGE 1939 BBC OVERSEAS DEPT 1941 POLITICAL WARFARE EXEC AND SHAEF 1946-70 MANAGING DIRECTOR RESEARCH SERVICES LTD 1964- CHAIRMAN (EXEC COMM) POLITICAL ECONOMIC PLANNING ACLAND, SIR ANTONY ARTHUR KCMG […]
[…] was the then chairman of the company, Pauline Neville-Jones, who, according to Greg Dyke, was one of the principal architects of his removal as director-General of the BBC over the ‘sexed-up dossier’ affair. The chairman of an arms firm is able to intervene in BBC reporting of a disastrous war from which her company […]
Dr. David Kelly The death of Dr David Kelly refuses to go away. Two groups of medical experts have expressed doubts about the suicide verdict. The International Toxicology Advisory Group have queried the conclusion that Kelly swallowed at least 20 co-proxamol tablets, which contributed to his death; (1) and a group of surgeons wrote to […]
