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By David Edwards, David Cromwell

ISBN-10: 0745328946

ISBN-13: 9780745328942

For nearly 10 years, Media Lens has inspired millions of readers to e-mail senior editors and newshounds, hard them to account for his or her distorted reporting on weather swap, the Palestine-Israel clash, the Iraq struggle and masses extra. The responses -- frequently magnificent, occasionally outrageous -- demonstrate the boldness, unaccountability and servility to energy of even our most beneficial media.

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4 The video evidence was impossible to deny. ’5 We wrote to BBC online editor, Steve Herrmann, on January 5, 2007, and asked: ‘Why was Prescott’s punch not an ‘alleged’ punch? stm. When there are questions surrounding the provenance of material such as this video footage and when investigations are being conducted we tend in principle to be cautious in our use of language. However in this story the use of the word allegedly is, we agree, unnecessary and will be removed from our report. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

The date was April 9, 2003 and US tanks were thundering into Baghdad. Marr said: ‘Frankly, the main mood [in Downing Street] is of unbridled relief. ’1 Marr delivered this with his own happy smile, suggesting not just that he felt the same, but that we should all feel the same. He explored the significance of the fall of Baghdad: Well, I think this does one thing – it draws a line under what, before the war, had been a period of ... well, a faint air of pointlessness, almost, was hanging over Downing Street.

Edwards 01 text 43 17/6/09 08:06:43 44 NEWSPEAK in the 21st Century The BBC preferred instead to cite the far less credible, and much lower, number from Iraq Body Count (IBC). ’34 This was a reference to IBC’s figure. And yet IBC only recorded civilian deaths as the result of violence, and only as reported by at least two media sources – it was not attempting to provide an estimate for all civilian deaths. ’35 This was apparently not an attempt at humour. That same month, Tarik Kafala, Middle East Editor of the BBC News website, wrote to one of our readers: We do not usually use the Lancet’s figure in standard news stories because it is so far out of line with other studies on the same issue.

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