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Mainstream media blackout anti war protests

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Tuesday April 08, 2003 08:47author by skandalska

Mainstream media BBC, ITV etc black out/censorship of anti war protestors at Hillsborough. Local news BBC, did give us a glimpse of thousands of anti war protestors at Hillsborough, but that was all we got. The BBC/ITV dedicated about 10 mins to the tiny DUP George Seawright memorial PRO WAR rally in Belfast city center but failed to cover anti war protests in depth.

Although thousands of anti war protestors flocked to Hillsborough, the mainstream media preffered to focus on the tiny DUP George Seawright memorial PRO WAR rally in belfast city center.

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RTE tell lies like a politician
author by James McKennapublication date Tue Apr 08, 2003 08:53author address author phone

Capt Amam Mastrianni , intelligence officer with the 101st Airborne Division stated yesterday evening that the suspect chemicals found in Iraq were found to be no more than pesticides. Rte is still broadcasting on it's news reports that they are possible "weapons of mass destruction" have been discovered.

They have been caontacted 10 times this morning and will not take the correct informating.

Thye know they are lying and they are determined to ignorantly continue

james
author by pat cpublication date Tue Apr 08, 2003 10:05author address author phone

The only thing to do is make complaints to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission. Its important that the nature of the calls a, the times & the response from RTE personnel at the time is documented.

Broadcasting Complaints Commission
C/O Secretary
Dept Finance
Govt Bldgs
Dublin 2

tel 6767571

tv3
author by ciarapublication date Tue Apr 08, 2003 11:04author address author phone

TV3- Irelands 'independent' station gave a figure of 500 people who marched. I saw them there with their cameras. Its a disgrace.

They're no help
author by James McKennapublication date Tue Apr 08, 2003 11:14author address author phone

They say they will put it before a comission meeting in June or July if I put it in writing to

2/5 Warrington Pl
Dublin 2


They will then forward it to RTE!

There's got to be a better way?

Crowd size
author by peace campaignerpublication date Tue Apr 08, 2003 12:58author address author phone

There were about 2,500 people there.

SWP and police crowd figures please
author by Joepublication date Tue Apr 08, 2003 13:14author address author phone

Can someone give the offical SWP/IAWM and PSNI figures so that we can apply the usual formula and work out how many were there! ((SWP/3)+(PSNI*2))/2

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