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http://www.organicconsumers.org/rbgh/akre022603.cfm
And on US media in general...
http://www.bigeye.com/092103.htm
And the extent to which the US public has demonstrated itself truly misinformed...
http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Iraq/Media_10_02_03_Report.pdf
All told, I say GO BEEB! The handful of moguls controlling mainstream media have relinquished any legitimate criticism of non-controlled agencies such as the BBC which stand as the last bastion against the ideologically driven pablum-cum-entertainment which passes for news in the "land of the free".
Freedom of Speech or even the right to life are too good for those utter cunts.
Yanking all Murdoch's licenses and forbidding him and his counterparts from ever again owning any media concerns would be crushing enough a penalty for his manipulative and vitriolic ambitions.
...which is where Murdoch's hatred of the European Union comes in.
Especially as, apropos of nothing, they've quashed Sky's monopoly on Premier League football. It'll only be the start, I hope.
'Tis only a personal opinion spot, though, which is a shame because it lets the guy get away with stuff that would probably be actionable in a news report. That the Beeb don't allow this kind of thing, even bring in new rules preventing it's journalists from voicing their opinions outside of the BBC, says all that needs to be said.
Cool format, by the way. I just clicked on the link and it played, none of that buffering jazz. Having broadband probably helps, I suppose.
But Andrew Gilligan got it right...
The Simpsons did a good parody of Fox News once even though they are owned by Fox. I believe they were threatened with a law suit too......
That video was one guys opinion, but it does not hide the fact that Murdoch was the only one to win from the Hutton report.
Independent Media
'John Gibson is the host of The Big Story, an hour-long, early-evening show that Fox says "provides in-depth coverage and analysis of the day's top stories". Each day, Gibson, who sports a bright white bouffant hairstyle that would require planning permission anywhere outside New York City, spends the last moments of his programme delivering a sermon on the day's great events.
Here is the presenter's on-screen analysis of Andrew Gilligan and the BBC, five hours after the Hutton report was published.
"The British Broadcasting Corporation was forced to pay up for its blatant anti-Americanism before and during the Iraq war. A frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism that was obsessive, irrational and dishonest.
"The BBC - the 'Beeb' - was one of the worst offenders in the British press because it felt entitled not only to pillory Americans and George W Bush, but because it felt entitled to lie. And when caught lying, it felt entitled to defend its lying reporters and executives.
"The incident involved the reporter Andrew Gilligan who made a fool of himself in Baghdad when the American invasion actually arrived in the Iraqi capital. Gilligan, pro-Iraqi and anti-American, insisted on the air that the Iraqi army was heroically repulsing an incompetent American military. Video from our own Greg Kelly of the American army moving through Baghdad at will put the light to that.
"After the war, back in London, Gilligan got a guy named David Kelly to tell him a few things about pre-war assessments on Iraq's weapons' programmes. And Gilligan exaggerated about what Kelly had told him.
"Kelly committed suicide over the story and the BBC, far from blaming itself, insisted its reporter had a right to lie, exaggerate, because, well, the BBC knew the war was wrong and anything it could say to underscore that point had to be right.
"The British government investigation slammed the BBC Wednesday and a Beeb exec resigned to show they got it.
"But they don't."
At this point, Gibson made a grab for the small badge on his jacket, and held it up to the camera. Referring to claims from the BBC that the audience for BBC World, the corporation's international news channel, rose during the Gulf War because of its impartial take on events, he continued:
"So the next time you hear the BBC bragging about how much superior the Brits are delivering the news [he adopts a British accent] rather than Americans who wear flags in their lapels, remember it was the Beeb caught lying." '
It's almost sickening, the ultra right wing lieing media and its propaganda should be destroyed. Well hopefully people wont beleive it
What about the ultra left-wing lying media and its propaganda.
What must always be remembered is that people will use whatever sources they deem necessary to back up a viewpoint- whether that is wrong or not depends on whether you agree with the viewpoint.
Take Coulter and Moore. They're both as hopelessly biased as each other, but most people on here agree with Moore so his viewpoint is seen as "correct" and the horrendous bias is ignored. The BushBots over at mil.com agree with Coulter, so her bias is ignored.
Who decides what bias is right and what bias is wrong?