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Betrayed? – some thoughts
Please see an earlier post for discussion of the problems with the MoD’s approach. The title Betrayed? An Investigation comes from a soldier interviewed by ITV News reporter Emma Murphy. Emma’s package features an extended interview with an unidentified wounded soldier. The two quotes from the soldier (reproduced on the ITV News website) explain that…
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The World Tonight
Look out for Adam Holloway MP who visited Afghanistan recently, and City’s own Professor Stewart Purvis – former ITN CEO – talking about ITN and the MoD on BBC Radio 4’s World Tonight at 22:00 UK time. You can listen online.
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Tali Telly Ban
Ok, apologies for the dreadful headline. Reporting both sides in a conflict does seem to invite political criticism, as CNN has discovered. Here’s the BBC attracting flak from the Conservative Party’s defence spokesman, Liam Fox. He said: “I am disgusted that the BBC should broadcast an interview with a Taliban ‘adviser’ while our troops are…
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MoD Dir of News email to ITV News execs
Because The Times doesn’t seem to have reproduced James Clark’s email in full from their print edition, here it is: All I’ve just watched two bulletins on hospital care tonight on ITV News. As bad a hatchet-job as I’ve seen in years. Cheap shots all over the place, no context, no reasonable explanation. Like the…