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| Gilligan "sexed up" Iraqi weapons story | |
| 2003-09-17 | |
The BBC journalist at the centre of a row between the British government and the BBC over the Iraq war has admitted he made mistakes in reporting claims the government had "sexed up" its dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #10 Strike the summit? Naahhh. Why should we destroy our own useful idiots? Guys like Arnett are the perfect foil. |
| Posted by: Tokyo Taro 2003-9-17 6:06:25 PM |
| #9 Strike the summit? Are you kidding? The guest list reads like the al-Queada media wing. The only thing al-Queada will be doing there is giving interviews. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-9-17 4:23:07 PM |
| #8 I hope Al-Queada strikes the summit. I hope somebody does, and hard! Can you imagine the number of people it will take to replace this load of trash? It'll also take at least a year for them to come up to the same level of "proficiency" - in lying, decieving, warping, twisting, folding, spindling, and mutilating a story to fit their |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-9-17 4:14:08 PM |
| #7 You just have to wonder why this kind of information never seems to make it to front pages. |
| Posted by: Becky 2003-9-17 2:19:46 PM |
| #6 I hope Al-Queada strikes the summit. Some people might loose their lives, but the survivors will wake up and see the truth. The dead would only be several people, like Chris Cramer and Peter Arnett. |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-9-17 1:11:06 PM |
| #5 Talk about a target rich environment. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2003-9-17 12:47:07 PM |
| #4 Gilligan did this? Can't see it. The Professor, maybe even the Skipper, but not Gilligan. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-9-17 11:49:22 AM |
| #3 Hmm I didn't see Fox on that list, but al-guardian makes it...... tap, tap...nope |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-9-17 11:12:06 AM |
| #2 TT, funny you should ask that: Two major keynote speakers have been announced for the Third Arab Media Summit on October 7-8 - Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE Minister of Information and Chairman of Emirates Media Incorporation, and Chris Cramer, President of CNN International. The event will be hosted by Dubai Press Club at the new Madinat Al Jumeirah hotel and conference centre, and will focus on the role of war reporters in Iraq and the effect of government influence in the media. Mona Al Marri, executive manager of Dubai Press Club, said: "Sheikh Abdullah and Cramer will set the tone of the summit which is themed around the subject of War and the Media. They will provide the introduction to the event featuring 500 top journalists and international media personalities, who will gather in Dubai to debate and analyse the role of the modern war correspondents." The list of renowned speakers includes Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Arnett, who has spent a lifetime covering war and international crises for major American newspapers and most recently the Iraq War, and Tim Sebastian, Presenter of HardTalk for BBC World. They will be joined by Dr Hanan Ashrawi, known to the world as the Voice of Palestine, as well as Azmi Bishara, Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset; James Laurie, head of news at Star Group; Guardian columnist Martin Woollacott; senior foreign correspondent of The Times Janine Didiovanni; Khaled Al Maena, Editor-in-Chief of Saudi Arabia's Arab News Group, Hamdi Qandeel of Al Alam Al Youm in Egypt; Jamil Mroue of Daily Star in Lebanon and Gavin Esler of the BBC. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-9-17 9:44:14 AM |
| #1 Okay, Gilligan's career is toast. I propose a toast to this. Next one to go down should be Kampfner. There are a lot more that need to get tossed out. The whole profession needs a shake up. I hope Amanpour gets a drubbing for her recent remarks too but I'm less hopeful. Eason Jordan got off lightly it seems. Whatever became of good ole Peter Arnett? |
| Posted by: Tokyo Taro 2003-9-17 9:32:46 AM |