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Month: December 2002

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Message From America – ITN Declares War On Iraq

19th December 2002

Any lingering notions that we have an independent and free media system must surely be evaporating under the vast weight of evidence emerging as the US and Britain manipulate and deceive their way to a →

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BBC Channeling Government Propaganda

18th December 2002

We have just sent this letter to BBC news reporter Margaret Gilmore, and to Richard Sambrook, director of BBC news: Dear Margaret Gilmore Foreign Secretary Jack Straw declared today that Saddam Hussein “had rejected the →

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Adjusted Curiosity – Professional Servility And How To Overcome It

17th December 2002

Life In The Box We live in strange times. Day to day, journalists are seriously debating whether a single omission in a dossier on arms, or a single failure to open a door within two →

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Update: Final Exchange With George Monbiot On The Guardian And The Propaganda Model

10th December 2002

 In response to our recent Media Alert Update, “George Monbiot Responds Again on Iraq and ‘Just War’” (December 7, 2002), Monbiot has sent the following response. He has also published a Guardian article (‘Who guards →

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Update: George Monbiot Responds Again on Iraq and ‘Just War’

7th December 2002

In response to our recent Media Alert Update, “George Monbiot Responds on Iraq and ‘Just War’” (December 2, 2002), Monbiot has sent the following response: Dear Media Lens, Two issues appear to divide us, one →

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Update: George Monbiot Responds on Iraq and ‘Just War’

2nd December 2002

In our recent Media Alert, ‘Panorama and Guardian Editors Respond,’ (November 27, 2002), we mentioned a recent article by George Monbiot, titled, ‘See you in court, Tony,’ (The Guardian, November 26, 2002) Monbiot has since →

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