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1/ Twitter is trolling us all:
"State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, will not be labeled" https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2020/new-labels-for-government-and-state-affiliated-media-accounts.html
"State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, will not be labeled" https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2020/new-labels-for-government-and-state-affiliated-media-accounts.html
2/ ""In 2003, a Cardiff University report found that the BBC ‘displayed the most “pro-war” agenda of any broadcaster’ on the Iraq invasion." https://www.medialens.org/2016/the-great-iraq-war-fraud/
3/ "In 2003, Richard Sambrook, then head of BBC News, told staff not to broadcast ‘extreme’ anti-war opinion. His deputy, Mark Damazer, issued an email to newsroom staff ‘listing which categories of journalist should not attend’ the peace march in London in February 2003:"
4/ "The BBC’s Nicholas Witchell declared of the US invasion, as it steamrollered its way into central Baghdad:
‘It is absolutely, without a doubt, a vindication of the strategy.’ (BBC News at Six, April 9, 2003)"
‘It is absolutely, without a doubt, a vindication of the strategy.’ (BBC News at Six, April 9, 2003)"
5/ "Natasha Kaplinsky, then a BBC breakfast news presenter, beamed as she described how Blair ‘has become, again, Teflon Tony’. The BBC’s Mark Mardell agreed:
‘It has been a vindication for him.’ (BBC1, Breakfast News, April 10, 2003)"
‘It has been a vindication for him.’ (BBC1, Breakfast News, April 10, 2003)"
6/ "..BBC reporter Paul Wood had asserted that US and British troops had come to Iraq to ‘bring democracy and human rights’...then head of BBC News, to explain this propagandistic reporting, she sent us six pages of quotes by Bush and Blair as supposed proof of noble intent"
7/ "April 9, 2003. US troops had just reached central Baghdad...Andrew Marr, then BBC News political editor.."
Great outfit @medialens . Hope Twitter doesn't "cancel" them
https://www.medialens.org/2016/the-great-iraq-war-fraud/
Great outfit @medialens . Hope Twitter doesn't "cancel" them
https://www.medialens.org/2016/the-great-iraq-war-fraud/
8/ Lastly, state-financed media can be independent if each voter had control over a small amount of government funds that it could direct to any media outlet. Details here: https://cepr.net/combating-the-political-power-of-the-rich-wealth-taxes-and-seattle-election-vouchers/
