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Month: January 2002

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Alert Update – The BBC’s Director of News Responds on Mass Death of Refugees in Afghanistan

24th January 2002

Marjan the one-eyed lion is getting “better day by day” according to the latest ITN TV news report – the third so far this year – from Kabul zoo (ITN Evening News, 22 January, 2002). →

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Alert Update – The BBC Responds on Mass Death in Afghanistan

17th January 2002

On January 3, 2002 Media Lens issued a Media Alert focusing on how the BBC and ITN had been ignoring the mass starvation and death of civilians in Afghanistan. Since then, we have received a →

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Alert Update – Guardian Journalist Responds on Dissidents

12th January 2002

On December 8, 2001, Media Lens issued a Media Alert: Dissidents Dismissed As Angry, Deluded Egotists. The Alert focused on an article written by Rory Carroll of the Guardian (‘We don’t know where we’re going’, →

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Update – The Mass Death of Civilians in Afghanistan

6th January 2002

On January 3, Media Lens issued a Media Alert regarding the failure of the UK print and broadcast media to report the mass death of Afghan refugees. We have received a remarkable response from a →

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Update – The Mass Death of Civilians in Afghanistan (Correction)

6th January 2002

In today’s Media Alert Update we wrote that 300 people are dying every day in the Maslakh refugee camp in Afghanistan. This was an error. As we wrote in our original Media Alert, the figure →

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Alert Update – BBC Correspondent Responds on Red Cross Report

4th January 2002

On December 28, 2001, Media Lens issued a media alert regarding the BBC’s reporting of the launch of a new Red Cross rapid response disaster fund. David Loyn, the BBC’s developing world correspondent, referred in →

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Media Ignores the Mass Death of Civilians in Afghanistan

3rd January 2002

On today’s Lunchtime News, ITN again gave extensive coverage to bushfires in Australia. The fires are widespread and 6,000 people have been driven from their homes, but not one person has so far been killed. →

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