Originally published December 18 2005
Journalist observes the shortcomings of the BBC in reporting from Iraq
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
John Pilger of the Daily Standard looks at the BBC's failure to report the use of white phosphorus by the U.S. in Fallujah and what the failures of British and American media mean to the insurgency and the power of propaganda surrounding the war.
In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news and information and toward the world wide web, convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power.
Such honesty has yet to cross the Atlantic.
Since it was founded in 1922, the BBC has served to protect every British establishment during war and civil unrest.
"We" never traduce and never commit great crimes.
So the omission of shocking events in Iraq - the destruction of cities, the slaughter of innocent people and the farce of a puppet government - is routinely applied.
The same "spin" has ensured, until now, that the use of banned weapons by the Americans and British in Iraq has been suppressed as news.
An admission by the US State Department on 10 November that its forces had used white phosphorus in Fallujah followed "rumours on the internet," according to the BBC's Newsnight.
Last May, David Edwards and David Cromwell of medialens.org posted a revealing correspondence with Helen Boaden, the BBC's director of news.
They had asked her why the BBC had remained silent on known atrocities committed by the Americans in Fallujah.
She replied, "Our correspondent in Fallujah at the time [of the US attack], Paul Wood, did not report any of these things because he did not see any of these things."
He not only missed the Americans' use of white phosphorus, which they now admit, he reported nothing of the use of another banned weapon, napalm.
His interviews with doctors, local officials and families are on the internet, together with the work of those who have exposed the widespread use of uranium-tipped shells, another banned weapon, and cluster bombs, which Campbell would say are "technically legal."
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