IMC Reporter Sues Daily Mail - coverage on US radio
sane man | 26.03.2002 19:27
IMC Reporter Sues Daily Mail
In July 2001, the leaders of the world's richest industrialized nations - known as the G8 - met in Genoa Italy. In the street, as many as a quarter million anti-capitalist protestors opposing the summit clashed with heavily armed police. On Saturday evening, July 21, as Genoa was settling down following the day's events, protestors resting at the Diaz school were subject to a violent raid by Italian riot police. The first victim was British independent media journalist Mark Covell, who suffered a severe beating, broken ribs and a punctured lung. When Covell regained consciousness the following afternoon, two British journalists were in his well-guarded hospital room. The following Monday, the British newspaper The Daily Mail accused Covell of being the mastermind behind what they referred to as "the bloody Genoa riots." No charges were filed against Covell and now he is taking the Daily Mail and Journalist Lucy Morris to Court for defamation of character. As part of the lawsuit, Covell is hoping to draw attention concerns regarding Britain's corporate media. JoAnn Powers reports.
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In July 2001, the leaders of the world's richest industrialized nations - known as the G8 - met in Genoa Italy. In the street, as many as a quarter million anti-capitalist protestors opposing the summit clashed with heavily armed police. On Saturday evening, July 21, as Genoa was settling down following the day's events, protestors resting at the Diaz school were subject to a violent raid by Italian riot police. The first victim was British independent media journalist Mark Covell, who suffered a severe beating, broken ribs and a punctured lung. When Covell regained consciousness the following afternoon, two British journalists were in his well-guarded hospital room. The following Monday, the British newspaper The Daily Mail accused Covell of being the mastermind behind what they referred to as "the bloody Genoa riots." No charges were filed against Covell and now he is taking the Daily Mail and Journalist Lucy Morris to Court for defamation of character. As part of the lawsuit, Covell is hoping to draw attention concerns regarding Britain's corporate media. JoAnn Powers reports.
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Give them what they deserve
27.03.2002 00:01
Give them what they deserve
Accordingly to the severe damage they have caused.
We must all join to fight against this
relentless, blind and filthy machinery - corporate media.
That is the voice of the corporate policestate.
Daily Mail and all the other corp. rats are like
an unaccountable surveillance society.
Look here...
In this picture you will find the remedy
Corporate Policestate
Do what exactly???
27.03.2002 10:29
db
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Freedom of speech
27.03.2002 10:35
Thanks for this action, you are defending freedom of speech.
pir
freedom of speech
27.03.2002 10:43
Thanks for this action, you are defending freedom of speech.
pir
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freedom of speech in danger
27.03.2002 11:02
Freedom of speech is pretty much meaningless if you can't be held responsible for what you say. That's true for those preaching violence but even more so for the liars with the deep pockets and the large audiences, like the Daily Mail. It's about time that the mass media are taken to account for their propaganda, otherwise they control 'the truth'.
Thanks for this action, you are defending freedom of speech.
pir
trial date
27.03.2002 16:09
J