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... open to judicial review. ' Man bites old saw What times we are in when Daily Mail columnist Oborne approvingly quotes from Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman. Oborne's latest book also points out that 'chroniclers of the New Labour government as well as biographers of the Prime Minister have effectively ignored Rupert Murdoch'. Jon Sopel of the BBC never mentioned him in his 1995 Blair biog; in 550 pages on New Labour, The Observer's Andrew Rawnsley gave Murdoch three name checks; and John Rentoul of The Independent on Sunday managed '10 brief mentions' in his big Blair book. Was it any different with Margaret Thatcher? 'Hugo Young's much-praised book on Margaret Thatcher, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-13.htm
... landmine campaign. ' The male caller in question was allegedly Sir Nicholas Soames, a supporter of Prince Charles during the War of the Waleses and (at the time of the call) Minister of State for the Armed Forces. In November 1995, Soames had publicly claimed that the Princess was in 'the advanced stages of paranoia' (on BBC 2's Newsnight) and said that she was pulling off 'a very calculating and a very polished performance' (Radio 4 Today programme) after her Panorama appearance. The claim that Soames made ominous remarks about accidents would appear to be directly pertinent to Paget's remit to investigate a possible conspiracy to murder. However, it was resolved in the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-28.htm
... Kamm. On a different subject, presenter Jeremy Paxman referred to 'surviving a sustained barrage of astonishingly threatening lawyers' letters and ear-bending from one of the country's most expensive PR firms. ' (The Journalist, November 2007). Declaration of Interests: I am a supporter of the Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom which supports the BBC. See Independent on Sunday, 16 September 2007 See admission by former SIS Chief Sir Richard Dearlove of sympathy with what he called 'initial use' of rendition and torture, The Guardian, 16 May 2007. Given the manner of death in 2003 of one of Britain's most distinguished government scientists, Dr Kelly, it was perhaps not the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-14.htm
... , monstrous act, demented mind. Reclaiming History, p. 936. Reclaiming History, p. 939. Reclaiming History, p. 939. The Warren Report (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1964), p. 201. Mailer filmed interview in Robert Stone's 85 minute documentary, Oswald's Ghost. Most recently shown on BBC Four on 5 June 2007. Bugliosi seems not to be aware of this novelettish silliness. And on the subject of Mailer, did anyone ever get beyond the first few pages of Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (New York: Random House,1995)? The idea a novelist can bring an understanding to the case that a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-20.htm
... ) becomes a test for whether the UK military can or should operate 'out-of-area' at all if Government will not trade butter for more guns. The latest Comprehensive Spending Review indicated that, if there is money to spare, it would go to the security and intelligence services and into soft power arrangements (such as the BBC Arabic and Farsi broadcast channels) and not into the sort of military resource that could cope with more than one military intervention at a time. The commitment to improving conditions for ordinary soldiers and their families and changes in compensation arrangements also suggest that the military is increasingly going to be seen as just one public service amongst many and that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-03.htm
106. 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 99 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-21.htm
... Independent, 22 March 2007. The complete text can be read at <www.uruknet.de/?p =m28769&hd=&size=1 &l =e > <http://alternet.org/story/45726/> <www.counterpunch.org/ketcham03072007.html>. For a BBC version of the original 'Israeli art students' story from 2002 see <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1 /hi/world/europe/2294487.stm>. Or, rather, don't see that URL for it evoked a 404 when I tried 'open location' using it. However if you ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-26.htm
... Berlusconi politicians were so incensed that they proposed the expulsion of New Labour from the European Socialist Party. '( 12) But Berlusconi and Blair have gone and the question is: will Blair's going be followed by the kind of disgraceful legal proceedings which have accompanied the departure of his Italian alter ego? Notes http://news.bbc.co.uk/1 /hi/uk_politics/1873866.stm For example, shortly after Blair became Prime Minister, Labour was forced to return a £1 million donation from the Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone after it emerged that he had lobbied Blair to delay a ban on the sport being sponsored by the tobacco ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-37.htm
... that brought the cops to his door in the end. His claims to govern-ment transparency were as fake as his claims to an ethical foreign policy. His friendship with Silvio Berlusconi was perhaps the biggest obscenity of them all. Faced with the death of David Kelly he managed to turn the Hutton Inquiry into a witch hunt of the BBC. Blair's legacy? Well, Tony saved the Tory Party from oblivion through his failure to deliver the socialist goods. He also enabled the BNP to appear radical to the socially excluded white working class, by saying that the class war was over and proclaiming the free market inevitable. Bye Tony, and please don't ask for a reference ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-13.htm
110. Lobbying [Lobster #53 (Summer 2007)]
... it's private. See 'Media Monkey', The Guardian 30 April 2007, about opposition parties being alerted to an upcoming scoop. Particularly worrying is the increasing trend to target children; e.g . and however exciting, an espionage exhibition at a national London museum. The tactic is straight out of the marketing manuals. See 'Ex-BBC and Blair aides hired', The Independent 1 July 2006. The media played into its hands by publicising the incident, providing thousands of pounds of free advertising. The company did, however, make a valid point: it is expensive and time consuming to attend parliamentary committees. See The Observer 17 September 2006 when the PM attended ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-31.htm
