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Challenging the Main Stream Media
Last Thursday marked one year since I asked Saving Syria’s Children cameraman, director and producer Darren Conway OBE to clarify precisely when the incendiary bomb attack on a school playground in Urm al-Kubra, Aleppo on Monday 26 August 2013 – scenes from the aftermath of which had formed the climax of his BBC Panorama documentary Saving Syria’s Children – had occurred.
The exchange, during Q&A at the end of an evening’s retrospective of Conway’s career hosted by London’s Frontline Club, was captured on mobile phone footage and went as follows:
(Continued here)
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Challenges to Channel 4 News/The Telegraph/The Guardian “barrel bomb” reports
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Complaint to Guardian readers’ editor re: “unexploded barrel bomb” (Guardian’s response: Guardian “barrel bomb” caption “clarified”)
IPSO rejects Telegraph “new” “barrel bomb” footage complaint
Ofcom decision on RT Truthseeker programme
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Hand in Hand for Syria
Concerns about Hand in Hand for Syria raised with Charity Commission
UK charity which shares Syrian opposition “aims and objectives” benefits from Alan Kurdi tragedy
Newsnight/BBC News Channel “napalm bomb” editing complaint – a modest victory and an interesting defeat
BBC Trust: “no requirement for re-edited material to be flagged to the viewer”
BBC upholds “napalm bomb” footage-switching complaint – decision published on BBC website
Miscellaneous
Is the BBCs Ian Pannell complicit in crude anti-Syrian propaganda? (originally posted here)
Robert Stuart
https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/
Philosophers stone – selected views from the boat http://philosophers-stone.co.uk
Source: http://www.philosophers-stone.co.uk/?p=4824
