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THE ATTACKS ON LEBANON: STATE INTERFERENCE IN TODAY'S ITN LUNCHTIME BROADCAST?

Portland Bill | 23.07.2006 11:57 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | World

ITN lunchtime broadcast knocked off air at beginning of lead story.

Today's lunchtime broadcast at 1155am was unceremoniously knocked off air for it's entire duration of 5 minutes without explanation, just as the bulletin opened with the newsreaders lead story that the UN's humanitarian chief Jan Egeland, who has been touring bomb ravaged Beirut, lambasted Israel's attacks on Lebanon as "a violation of humanitarian law".

The only alternative lunchtime broadcast on terrestrial television was on BBC1 at 12pm, which was broadcast without interruption, but led with a much watered down version of the Lebanon crisis, with the UN humanitarian chiefs comments reduced to a footnote.

Portland Bill

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Display the following 9 comments

  1. dont be so bloody stupid — voice of reason
  2. Oh we are so grateful! — Me
  3. no cut out during conflict zone report — her indoors
  4. censorship — dave
  5. website was offline too — mad scotsman
  6. Technical problems with both offsite web server AND onsite broadcast equipment? — hmm
  7. ITN employee speculates loss of show could be due to a "power surge" — taciturn
  8. Broadcast Jamming — John324
  9. they're all after me — them