Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

ITV News

johnny_boy | 28.01.2003 09:04

ITV try to link Iraq with 9/11

ITV news last night (27/1) was cranking up the war rhetoric and poisoning public opinion last night, by trying to link Iraq with 9/11. Most disgraceful of all was a caption titled "Iraq Crisis" below a picture of the remains of the twin towers - depsite, of course, there not being a shred of evidence to link Iraq with this attack.

Get on the phone to these scumbags and tell them what you think of their gutter journalism:

 viewer_liaisonC3@itn.co.uk

0207 833 3000 ask for viewer liaison

johnny_boy

Comments

Hide the following 6 comments

agreed

28.01.2003 09:25

totally agree with you, they seem to be stoking up the fires of hell. On numerous occasions they have led with big backdrops of giant letters spelling WAR.

nellie


Bomb the Beeb

28.01.2003 09:53

Radio 5 Live had a geezer on at midnight who laughed at the Greenpeace boat in the Solent, agreeing with an emailer/caller/whatever that it should be blown out of the water.

John Bull


Copy and send

28.01.2003 12:08

If you can't be bothered to write your own complaints, copy these and send them to ITN with any others you can think of (shouldn't be too difficult):

To: ITN news team.

I have recently been appalled at your coverage of the Iraq issue which has been out of touch with both the truth and the opinion of the majority of the British public. I have particular complaints about the following points:

1) You have consistently connected, both directly and indirectly, Iraq with 9/11 without any evidence.

2) You consistently refer to Iraq's possible nuclear capability (despite lack of evidence), whilst failing to point out that:
(i) the allies rained thousands of tonnes of nuclear material - "depleted uranium" in govt-friendly mediaspeak - on Iraq during the last war
(ii) the allies have enough nuclear power to destroy most of the surface of the planet,
(iii) there has been a number of near-miss nuclear accidents at UK power stations and military bases almost resulting in Chernobyl-sized disasters
(iv) the most aggressive country in the Middle east -Israel- has illegally developed nuclear weapons but continues to recieve billions of dollars in aid from USA
(v) the only country to use atomic bombs on civilian populations is USA

3) You constantly portray Saddam Hussein as a danger to world peace (obviously true), while treating Bush impartially, despite the vast majority of people in the world considering Bush to be a far greater threat, a view borne out by his (and his family's) track record.

4) You continue to refer to the Iraqis disrupting weapons inspections in the past whilst failing to mention the following:
(i) The original delegation was withdrawn because it was revealed that the US representatives were CIA spies.
(ii) When the Scott Ritter-led team had almost finished their inspections, the US said that, once they were completed, they would NOT honour their agreement to lift the oil embargo on Iraq, prompting Saddam Hussein to (understandably) refuse to comply with further inspections
(iii) The USA has been far less compliant than Iraq with its own weapons inspections,

5) You often refer to Saddam Hussein gassing his own people, whilst failing to mention:
(i) this occurred in March 1988 whilst Iraq was still an ally of USA and UK and that WE CONTINUED TO SUPPORT SADDAM HUSSEIN AFTER KNOWING ABOUT THE MASSACRE AT HALABJA
(ii) they weren't his own people, they were Kurds (although this doesn't lessen the barbarity of the massacre)

6) You consistently refer to the wishes of the UN Security Council without questioning their legitamacy (re: appalling human rights records of it's members especially Russia and China).

Agent of Gaia


Another link

28.01.2003 13:21

While you're at it you could complain to the ITC as well, as they're supposed to ensure that news programs are impartial....

 http://www.itc.org.uk/how_can_we_help/complain/prog_complaint_form.asp

johnny_boy


Turn Off!

28.01.2003 18:27

TV is a military tool.

Turn On...


thanks agent of gaia

29.01.2003 10:55

thanks agent of gaia, will send right away

me


Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech