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[…] 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 […]

[…] much longer). EuroFAQ()distributed the text of a letter dated 7 August from the chair of the UK Independence Party, Jeremy Titford MEP, to the governors of the BBC. The letter included this: ‘…the news revealed by Andrew Neil, one of the BBC’s presenters, on a recent Radio 5 Live breakfast show, when he said […]

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 […]

[…] where credit is due. BOSS deserves a pat on the back for that brilliant disinformer. It was such a humdinger that the whole of Fleet St., the BBC and TV networks fell for it. So much so that in all the eight major TV interviews I gave the commentator always ended up by suggesting […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] significant links to the CIA.(1) In the British version, several of King’s co-conspirators seemed to have been media people initially opposed to the preeminent position of the BBC, at a time when the BBC was often accused of left-wing bias. The coup plot came to nothing when the Wilson government’s own scientific advisor, Sir […]