RTE retracts bogus chemical weapons story

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday April 08, 2003 13:21 by James McKenna jimmymac61 at hotmail dot com

Pat Kenny Show 11.40 approx

Pat Kenny issued a statement on his show this morning counteracting the lie that they had been spreading up until the 9.00am news on Radio 1 this morning. He said RTE had been contacted by AFP who had described the story as a "hoax".

He said RTE had been contacted by AFP who had described the story as a "hoax".

I would suggest "Black Propaganda" wouuld be a more accurate description of that emotive story that had relatives of sodiers fighting in Iraq very upset . But why worry about being accurate if your a monolith like RTE who need only answer to its own Politbureau and the Government