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Evening Standard runs, then drops, report on Evian protest

Standards | 03.06.2003 09:46

Yesterday the Evening Standard ran a front page piece on Evian protests, reporting the 10 mile exclusion zone, the cutting of the rope by police and injury of Martin Shaw, and showing a front page photo of riot police pointing batons at an apparently unconscious protester. By the afternoon, they'd dropped THE WHOLE STORY.

Perhaps the Evening Standard didn't mean to show the police brutality at Evian, and then realised they had. The story included the front page photo (as in summary above), and continued the story on p.5, which gave full details together with a biography of Martin Shaw.

By the afternoon (when I found another copy inthe tube) they'd DROPPED THE WHOLE STORY - EVERY REFERENCE. I've never seen this happen before: sometimes the order of stories will change from front page etc, or a photo will be droppped, but not the whole story. All they did to fill the missing space was to MAKE THE PHOTO OF TONY BLAIR ON P.5 BIGGER.

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03.06.2003 10:03

Keep both copies as evidence.

Stating the obvious really, sorry :)

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Tittle Tattle

03.06.2003 10:53

Replaced by gossip about sex and Vice-Girls... much more titillating than truth.

Tabby

Not A Mention

03.06.2003 12:23

BBC 10 o'clock news, yesterday NOT A MENTION of
the protests.


There was tony refuting whatever the latest accusation is, a report about the mars probe and a 10 minuite report ofn the Queen's fucking back garden tea party!(laced with "oh isn't she so kind, courageous etc. for inviting underpriviliged children to her party, it wasslightly nauseating). It was mad, the infallibility of our monarch and the glorious engineering ffeats of our great nation, but not a mention of the action around the G8. Well, that's what you get when the TV is state owned.

piddlesworth of albion

setting the usual standard

03.06.2003 12:24

I'm surprised it wasn't a photoshop montage of G8 leaders suckin each others dicks. Remember that farcical Standard pic of the 'liberated Iraqis'?? Talk your way out of THAT ONE Realist..

i am a numb