Focusing on deception and manipulation
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EU transparency needed: Letter to Commissioner Kallas |
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David Miller - Unspun
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Thursday, 05 May 2005 |
Spinwatch has sent an open letter to EU Commissioner Siim Kallas urging him to introduce regulation of lobbyists at the European Commission and to end the privileged access of corporations to EU policy making.
The letter highlights the urgent necessity of regulation of lobbyists and points to the experience of the UK and Scotland in debating lobbying regulation. |
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SSVC Responds again - sort of. |
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David Miller - Unspun
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Saturday, 16 April 2005 |
The SSVC has replied to my queries about its relationship with the MoD. In its previous press statement it claimed that is was 'editorially independent' of the MoD. I asked it to substantiate these claims and in response the SSVC have suggested that... I get in touch with the MoD! There could hardly be a more graphic illustation of their lack of editorial independece.
I have written back to ask the SSVC to confirm this. I will also be writing to the MoD. |
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David Miller - Unspun
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Saturday, 09 April 2005 |
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The Controllers of BFBS Radio and BFBS TV have responded to the Spinwatch artilce revealing the use of 'fake journalists' on the BBC. In a letter to Spinwatch they claim that the SSVC is 'independent' of the Ministry of Defence that their staff 'take exception' to allegations of bias and that they are'categorically not purveyors of propaganda'. Further they state that if they were to practice such 'cynical manipulation' they would be 'utterly discredited both with their audience and their peers' (text of letter below). Sadly for BFBS they are already discredited with their alleged 'peers' who work in the real world of journalism as opposed to the morale boosting twilight world of propaganda. This is plain from the fact that the BBC have now pledged not to use any more of their reports. Their use has been declared 'not ideal' by Stephen Whittle, the Controller of Editorial Policy at the BBC in an email to Spinwatch (See previous blog entries). |
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Fake journalists - The BBC reponds |
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David Miller - Unspun
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Thursday, 24 March 2005 |
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The BBC has responded to complaints about the use of fake journalists. Further to the Spinwatch news report on this, here is the correspondence with Stephen Whittle, the Controller of Editorial Policy at the BBC. |
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David Miller - Unspun
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Saturday, 19 March 2005 |
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Saturday, March 19, 2005, 20:04 Fake journalists The Spinwatch/Media Lens Alert on the use by the BBC of journalists paid for by the MoD has met with a thundering silence in the UK media. http://spinwatch.server101.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=342 |
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