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Genocide in Syria: News Correspondent Stuart Ramsay’s chilling tweets
02.09.2012
05:41 pm
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Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent of Sky News has been tweeting chilling coverage of the current genocide from inside Syria.

from homs to the leb border people making preps to die

huge military offensive expected families saying goodbye to loved ones

i predict a further massacre

FSA say as many as 10 thousand troops deployed outside homs - cant confirm

tanks apc artillery infantry everywhere - fsa all but overwhelmed - counting bullets

fsa attacking across region but feels like a hornet on an elephant

You can follow @ramsaysky here.
 

 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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02.09.2012
05:41 pm
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When TV broadcasts go wrong
06.16.2011
06:57 pm
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Don’t mention the war.
 
With thanks to Damien Smith
 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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06.16.2011
06:57 pm
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Why you should never do a live News broadcast from a bar
01.31.2011
10:34 am
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Oh dear, I wonder who thought this was a good idea? BBC Scotland News presented a live link-up to a bar, in tennis player Andy Murray’s hometown of Dunblane, after Murray had lost in the Australian Open final.

This little vignette confirms a lot of Scottish stereotypes in one go, and explains why TV News should never do live link-ups from bars.
 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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01.31.2011
10:34 am
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John Pilger’s Must See Documentary About the Truth of News Reporting in Afghanistan and Iraq

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The War You Don’t See is a must-see documentary by Emmy-award-winning journalist John Pilger, who examines the news media’s failures, mistakes and crass ineptitude when reporting the truth about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In The War You Don’t See, Pilger, himself a renowned correspondent, asks whether mainstream news has become an integral part of war-making.

Focusing on the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, Pilger reflects on the history of the relationship between the media and government in times of conflict stretching back to World War I and explores the impact on the information fed to the public of the modern day practice of public relations in the guise of ‘embedding’ journalists with the military.

Featuring interviews with senior figures at major UK broadcasters, the BBC and ITV, and high profile journalists on both sides of the Atlantic, including Rageh Omaar and Dan Rather, the film investigates the reporting of government claims that Iraq harboured weapons of mass destruction.

Pilger also speaks to independent film makers, and whistleblowers, including the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange and to former senior British Foreign Office official Carne Ross to investigate why what he believes were key voices and key details did not figure prominently on the mainstream media’s agenda. The film also includes hard-hitting footage from independent media sources showing scenes in Afghanistan and Iraq, including footage leaked to Wikileaks.

Dan Rather, the famous CBS news anchor, and BBC World Affairs Correspondent Rageh Omaar both reflect on their own roles during the lead up to hostilities in Afghanistan and Iraq and the lessons they have learned.  Rather speaks about pressure felt by journalists who face the danger of becoming what he calls mere ‘stenographers’. Rageh Omaar speaks about the proliferation of 24 hour news and the effects this has on war reporting, including his own experience reporting on the liberation of Basra.

Fran Unsworth, the BBC Head of Newsgathering and David Mannion, Editor in Chief of ITV News, both face questioning on their news departments’ reporting of the Iraq war and the scrutiny of George Bush and Tony Blair’s claims about weapons of mass destruction.

The documentary also focuses on the abuse of Iraqi civilians by British soldiers and speaks to Phil Shiner, a lawyer who is representing a number of Iraqi victims. It examines the notion that our media distinguishes between ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’ victims of conflicts and how.

The War You Don’t See also looks at the balance of the media’s reporting on the hostilities between Palestinians and Israelis, with particular focus on mainstream broadcasters’ coverage of the Israeli attack on the aid flotilla in Gaza earlier this year.  Both the BBC and ITV are asked about the influence of Israeli government efforts to shape the reporting of such incidents on their coverage.

Now in his seventy-first year, Pilger has lost none of his investigative skill as journalist or any of his anger at injustice and falsehood, and while it can be argued that he has his own agenda, Pilger is a very much needed David, pitched against the dangerous Goliath of Fox News.  As Pilger once said:

“It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it”

 

 
Parts 2-7 of John Pilger’s ‘The War You Don’t See’ after the jump…
 

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Posted by Paul Gallagher
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12.18.2010
06:36 pm
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Jody McIntyre: Man Attacked by Police Interviewed on BBC News

 
“You are blaming the victims of violence for the violence.” - Jody McIntyre

BBC interview wheelchair user and cerebal palsy sufferer Jody McIntryre after he was dragged from his wheelchair by police on two seperate occasions at the anti-tuition fees protest on the 9th December 2010 in London.

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds

Footage of British Police Brutality Against Disabled Journalist


Not Just Berkeley and London The International Student Movement is on Fire


 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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12.13.2010
07:07 pm
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The Gregory Brothers : The Bed Intruder Song

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Brooklyn’s Gregory Brothers, who’ve done dozens of these, have done it again, a little remix masterpiece. They’ve auto-tuned a news report into a song that actually holds up as a song. The keyboard ending is a bit lame, but otherwise this is both funny and kind of moving.

After Antoine Dodson, a young hero from Huntsville, AL, saves his sister from an attack, he sings an important message both to his community and to the attacker himself. Evan Gregory then proceeds to play a heartfelt cover of the resulting song.

he’s climbin in your windows
he’s snatchin your people up
tryna rape em so y’all need to
hide your kids, hide your wife
hide your kids, hide your wife
hide your kids, hide your wife
and hide your husband
cuz they’re rapin errbody out here

 

 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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07.31.2010
01:59 pm
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