03-07-2009, 00:08
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חבר מתאריך: 11.06.09
הודעות: 2
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Press TV: Iranian Propaganda Station
בתגובה להודעה מספר 1 שנכתבה על ידי אמיר ג. שמתחילה ב "פרס-טי-וי: איש טאליבן פקיסטני "שעבד בשרות המוסד" נהרג בפקיסטן"
Press TV has excelled itself by running a story that no reputable news outlet had reported: a supposed CIA study predicting the collapse of Israel within 20 years. The only authority cited for this study was “international lawyer Franklin Lamb”. Lamb is a political activist described by Hizbollah’s TV station in Lebanon as “persistent in his support for the just cause of the Lebanese people’s resistance”.
Press TV has, rightly and importantly, the liberty to broadcast in the UK. It hardly needs stating that British journalists do not enjoy comparable liberty when reporting from Tehran. But the most significant aspect of Press TV’s role is its ability to insinuate into public debate the worst and most pernicious ideas around
Yet Press TV would like us to think - despite the bevy of conspiracy theorists and Holocaust deniers drawn to it as inexorably as rodents are to sewers - that it is a legitimate news operation. To the contrary, it should be boycotted by anyone who values press freedom and journalistic rigor. Which means don’t appear on it, don’t answer calls from their “correspondents,” don’t credential its “correspondents” - don’t, in fact, do anything which might allow Press TV to claim credibility when its sponsors routinely imprison, torture and murder proper journalists and bloggers.
Consign Press TV to the foul-smelling hinterland where it belongs.
נערך לאחרונה ע"י LEVIjoe בתאריך 03-07-2009 בשעה 00:12.
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