propaganda war kicks in- BBC downgrades murdered UN staff to "NGO staff"
richard byrne | 14.10.2001 11:01
Press have now started reporting the UN guards killed by American bombs last week as "staff working for a non governmental organisation"
Yesterday (Saturday 13th October) the News bulletin on BBC 5 LIve at 11 am. referred to the 4 UN guards killed by an American bomb last week as "guards working for a non governmental organisation".
They deliberately did not refer to them as UN staff, as had previously been done.
This despite the fact that after the bombing a UN Official in pakistan, stephanie Bowker, appeared before the world's media reporting that 4 UN guards were killed and gave thier names etc.
The Observer is today reporting them as "4 workers who died earlier last week when an errant cruise missile was BELIEVED to have hit a building used by the United Nations for mine-clearing operations." (emphasis added)
I guess we shouldn't be too surprised at this re casting of the "news" but it's pretty clear that someone has told the BBC and others to do this.
Give them another week and who knows what they'll have changed the "4 UN guards" to?
They deliberately did not refer to them as UN staff, as had previously been done.
This despite the fact that after the bombing a UN Official in pakistan, stephanie Bowker, appeared before the world's media reporting that 4 UN guards were killed and gave thier names etc.
The Observer is today reporting them as "4 workers who died earlier last week when an errant cruise missile was BELIEVED to have hit a building used by the United Nations for mine-clearing operations." (emphasis added)
I guess we shouldn't be too surprised at this re casting of the "news" but it's pretty clear that someone has told the BBC and others to do this.
Give them another week and who knows what they'll have changed the "4 UN guards" to?
richard byrne
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