The media is "swallowing the same propaganda" on Iran in which the deliberately manipulative way the case for the Iraq war was sold to the public by governments, according to Media Workers Against the War (MWAW).
In particular, the BBC Radio Four's flagship current affairs programme, Today, was singled out as an example of the general trend as if the mistaken case against Iraq never happened.
"Its coverage of Iran in April and May has paid lip service of 'balance' while presenting the debate over Iran in such a way as to legitimise a US military response. On some days that coverage has een a travesty of balance," MWAW said in its latest newsletter.
Today programme, it said, "presented without challenge or qualification lengthy comment on Iran from figures known to have played crucial roles in preparing the ground for the Iraq invasion." It "made no attempt to explain the Middle-Eastern context in which the belligerency of the US administration.
2006-06-05
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