Campaign against biased reporting
Sqoo | 02.10.2002 12:00
It may not do anything other that irritate, but every avenue of complaint against government propoganda must be taken. I wrote a letter to the editor of the Guardian.
It may not do anything other that irritate a single but powerfull person, but every avenue of complaint against government propoganda must be taken.
I wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper I used to read, citing some of their bias. If everyone did the same, nothing *may* change, but you never know....
(I have done may other actions besides this so please don't accuse me of being lame)
Here is the body of the letter (complete with spelling mistake):
I just wanted to say that your slanted reporting of 'facts' since 9/11 has been the reason I have deserted your newspaper (I no longer read any broadsheet).
The reason I am commenting now is because of some of the reporting that appeared after the parliamentary debate. You commented on Iraq having broken the Geneva convention on bio weapons (sorry I am doing this from memory and don't have facts to hand), you should have pointed out that the USA has never signed up to this treaty and would be massively in breach if it had.
After the Labour conference in Brighton last year hardly a mention was made of the sizable march (for a small city) that took place outside, there were several thousand people with an anti war agenda right outside the conference, what was reported in a single sentence on the front page was that there a few hundred 'anti globalisation protesters' mad a bit of noise.
Your reporters were there in force and yet you gave far more column inches to foreign marches of a similar nature. To me and my friends, who on the whole read your paper, it seemed that the editor had been 'nobbled' in order to gain ministerial access at the conference.
This seems to be happening again, anti war demos at conference time!. There is huge untapped market out there who know and respect reporters such as George Monbiot, who would love to have a paper they could trust. I hope one day there will be, maybe it could be yours.
Regards
David XXXX,
Brighton
I wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper I used to read, citing some of their bias. If everyone did the same, nothing *may* change, but you never know....
(I have done may other actions besides this so please don't accuse me of being lame)
Here is the body of the letter (complete with spelling mistake):
I just wanted to say that your slanted reporting of 'facts' since 9/11 has been the reason I have deserted your newspaper (I no longer read any broadsheet).
The reason I am commenting now is because of some of the reporting that appeared after the parliamentary debate. You commented on Iraq having broken the Geneva convention on bio weapons (sorry I am doing this from memory and don't have facts to hand), you should have pointed out that the USA has never signed up to this treaty and would be massively in breach if it had.
After the Labour conference in Brighton last year hardly a mention was made of the sizable march (for a small city) that took place outside, there were several thousand people with an anti war agenda right outside the conference, what was reported in a single sentence on the front page was that there a few hundred 'anti globalisation protesters' mad a bit of noise.
Your reporters were there in force and yet you gave far more column inches to foreign marches of a similar nature. To me and my friends, who on the whole read your paper, it seemed that the editor had been 'nobbled' in order to gain ministerial access at the conference.
This seems to be happening again, anti war demos at conference time!. There is huge untapped market out there who know and respect reporters such as George Monbiot, who would love to have a paper they could trust. I hope one day there will be, maybe it could be yours.
Regards
David XXXX,
Brighton
Sqoo