The Guardian has posted the statements of three eyewitnesses who all claim to have seen first hand the Police violently attacking Ian Tomlinson minutes before he collapsed.
A riot officer came up behind him and grabbed him. It wasn’t just pushing him – he’d rushed him. He went to the floor and he did actually roll. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bbc’
G20 Death: Eyewitness Statements and Police Distortion
Posted in activism, media, tagged bbc, death, g20, guardian, ian tomlinson, media, police, propaganda on April 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Analysing Media Coverage of the Wildcat Strikes
Posted in activism, cultural criticism, media, media activism, tagged bbc, indymedia, jobs, Lindsey Oil Refinery, strikes, wildcat, workers on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
While the mainstream media has mainly presented the current wildcat strikes in the UK as a nationalist phenomena, concentrating on the slogan ‘British jobs for British workers,’ they have seemed to largely ignore what the workers themselves have been saying.
For example one of the Lindsey Oil Strike refinery unofficial elected strike committee leaders wrote on [...]
The Blundering BBC
Posted in climate change, media, tagged accuracy, bbc, climate change, journalism on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Debates over Anthropogenic Climate Change deal with probability in complex nonlinear dynamical systems. The issues are difficult for lay people to understand at the best of times due to their complexity, however any understanding of ACC is likely to be undermined by poor quality journalism.
In debates over media democracy stemming from Internet based telecommunications, professional [...]
