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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 47) Summer 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 47 Tittle-tattle Tom Easton The ties that bind The treatment of Andrew Gilligan – blamed by the internal BBC inquiry while all his superiors escaped censure – throws a little more light on the tightness of the New Labour network. Conducting the investigation was Caroline Thomson, the BBC director of policy, who is married to Roger Liddle, Tony Blair's adviser on defence. Thomson and Liddle, whose role as a lobbyist while on the No 10 payroll was revealed in 1998 by Greg Palast (see Lobster 36 ), are very old friends of Peter Mandelson. Thomson and Liddle were big wheels in the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 123 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-51.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 55) Summer 2008 Last| Contents| Next Issue 55 Tittle-tattle Tom Easton A new royalty? A few weeks before former BBC political editor Andrew Marr received two Broadcasting Press Guild awards one as 'best TV performer in a non-acting role' his journalistic colleagues were quietly made aware of a little drama in his own life. Typical of the message from editorial lawyers circulated among Britain's major news outlets was this: 'Legal Andrew Marr and Jackie Ashley: We have heard from solicitors acting for this couple who warn us not to publish any stories about their private and personal lives without giving them notice and thus a chance to apply for an injunction. They ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 113 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-18.htm
... Contents Media matters Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy Matthew Alford London: Pluto Press, 2010, £13.00 (p /b) Robin Ramsay O n the British right there is a widespread view that the BBC is full of lefties and puts out lefty propaganda. Here's Melanie Phillips: 'With a few honourable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of left-wing, secular, anti- western thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big 148 Winter 2010 business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 82 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-148.pdf
4. RE: [Lobster #53 (Summer 2007)]
... of Iraq, Afghanistan, and other global war on terror operations since 9/11, produced by Amy Belasco for the Congressional Research Service.(22) UK media independence over the reporting of Iraq has been questioned following investigations by academics from Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds Universities.(23)Their research indicates that' government accusations of BBC anti-war bias were unfounded: Channel 4 News was least likely to report coalition good news, with Sky News and ITV most likely. The BBC's coverage fell in the middle ground.'(24) For a first hand account of media manipulation as lucratively practised by the Lincoln Group(25)read former Oxford University student Willem Marx's ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 80 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-21.htm
... Next Issue 39 Where's Ware? John Ware is one of the leading British TV journalists of our age. He has worked for World in Action and Panorama and is held in very high regard by his colleagues. Having produced a number of documentaries on the war in Northern Ireland he is now seen as an expert on the area by the BBC and it is said that nothing gets broadcast about Northern Ireland by the BBC which has hasn't been cleared by Ware and/or Peter Taylor.(1) What follows arose through conversations between Simon Matthews and I during which we discovered we both had concerns about John Ware. He had written articles or produced TV documentaries about subjects of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 70 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-13.htm
... media about the Wallace-Wilson material. In late '86, just before Wallace got out of prison, we were invited to see some people at BBC's Newsnight. We had been told by Wallace that among the visitors to his unit, Information Policy, in Northern Ireland, had been Alan Protheroe, who in 1986 was Assistant Director General of the BBC. Nicknamed 'the Colonel' in the BBC, Protheroe was, and may still be, a part-time soldier/intelligence officer, specialising in military-media relations. That the Assistant Director General of the BBC should be a state-employed psy-war specialist in his spare-time, with all that implies about contacts with the British military-intelligence complex, seems not to have ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 70 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-09.htm
... stateside hack picked up his it usually is a he latest little gem. What's disappointing is how little insight into Atlanticism these big beasts of the journalistic firmament bring back to London when their Washington years have eased them up the career tree back in London. Michael White, still busy dissing any possibility of political conspiracy to his Guardian readers and BBC listeners despite being a Washington hack during President Reagan's IranContra years, is probably the worst of them in this regard. But his old Guardian colleague, Jim Naughtie, is not far behind and also has all his British American Project (Lobsters passim) baggage none of it disclosed to BBC Today programme listeners. One of the better post-war ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 68 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-09.htm
8. Spooks [Lobster #22 (Nov 1991)]
... Peter Langan: Used as an MI5 agent against the IRA in 60s (Langan, A Life With Food, Bloomsbury, London, 1990). Mike Jeffrey: Manager of Jimi Hendrix, MI5 counter-intelligence agent 50s. (Victor Sampson, Hendrix, Proteus, London, pp. 101-2). Michael Stokes: MI6 involved with Penkovsky (BBC TV 8/5 /91). John Collins: MI6 London 1961-62 (BBC TV 8/5 /91). Terrence Bennett: died 1978. Probably MI6 (personal information), taught in Malaya in the 50s and dropped out; moved from country to country-- 60s Middle East, Vietnam to Cambodia; and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 68 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-07.htm
... et seq) on this side of the pond. To cover the American countdown to war, long-time UK advisory board member Jim Naughtie returned to the New York home of his alma mater, Syracuse, and thence to Washington DC where he spent time away from The Guardian in 1981 on his Lawrence M Stern Fellowship. A regular in his BBC Today studio back in London throughout was early BAP recruit Peter Mandelson, while his old friend and Project founder member Lord Robertson was busy trying to keep Turkey onside through his position as NATO secretary general. Possibly even busier on the war in recent months than all three BAP veterans, though less publicly so, was another early member of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 67 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-13.htm
... 1970 (Patterson, 1989; 164). Around the same time as Paisley's remarks in 2005, Bertie Ahern himself said that rather than disband, the IRA could reconstitute itself as a 'commemorative association'. This outrageous capitulation to IRA terrorism, on the part of a 'green Tory' Prime Minister, was duly reported on the RTE, BBC Northern Ireland and Channel 4 News programmes on the same day. Most grotesque, was his claim that as the Official IRA, in the form of the Workers Party, had made the transition to legitimate politics, there was no reason to suggest that the green fascist IRA/Sinn Fein couldn't do the same. As Ahern is at ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-12.htm
