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Guardian newspaper dishonest and cowardly says Chomsky

endcrossrail and bad newspapers | 15.10.2008 15:31

A variety of Londoners particularly those who live in the East End share the disgust about the newspaper The Guardian. Indeed, since this time, we have maintained the vow not to buy the newspaper and its news on local issues has been shown to be wholly inaccurate, biased and morally reprehensible. We sympathise with Mr Chomsky and call on everyone to join us in looking to spread news in a creative but wholly different way... please see medialens for more information.

please keep an eye out for alternative and different news sources ... the world is infinite.

endcrossrail and bad newspapers

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Er.. where and when????

15.10.2008 16:12


Might help if you included a link to where Chomsky said such.....

pirate

Old, old, old

15.10.2008 16:35


It's a reference to a piece which the Guardian publicly apologised about three years ago.

Someone at Medialens has got huffy because they recently posted something about it in the comments at the bottom an unrelated story by the same journalist on the Guardian site, and are outraged that (after leaving it up for 48 hours) the comment was deleted by mods because of its lack of relevance.

Boo hoo.

It's tempting to launch into a rant here about how murky Chomsky was on the original Guardian story. The paper was right to apologise for stating that he had used the word "massacre" in quotation marks. But Chomsky has supported Diana Johnstone who is quite happy to refer to put "massacre" in quotation marks. and he has defended LM, which suggested that aspects of it had been faked. Chomsky deserved to be challenged about that.

Far more drastic misquotes occur daily on Indymedia.

Norville B

Agreed, but...

15.10.2008 16:35

... the Chomsky/Guardian story is very old (though still very interesting, admittedly). It is true that the Guardian are part of the corporate media system, and as such they are very much part of the distorting apparatus that keeps people so generally ill-informed. Media Lens are also worthy of commendation. Although it does not give the Guardian any ongoing absolution, it is nevertheless heartening to see that if you follow the Guardian links (from the Media Lens website) to the story in question, it has been replaced by corrections and apologies.

But the story in question relates to Bosnia, not Crossrail. If you want to cover the latter then a new story or new analysis/comment on old material would probably be better.

Jon