Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fox news terror expert | |
Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
Date/Time: | 12/01/15 22:41:00 |
Spiked are utter pricks though, full of self-styled contrarians who push an agenda suspiciously aligned to the authoritarian anti-environmental neo-liberalism you get from the likes of Murdoch or the Daily Mail or (particularly) the Telegraph with a weird side order of hero worship of old school Communist dictators. They're also directly descended from the 'Living Marxism/Revolutionary Communist Party' lot who tried to smear ITN and journalist Ed Vulliamy for (correctly) pointing out that the Serbs were running concentration camps in Bosnia - they sued LM and won, resulting in the magazine folding. His account of it is well worth reading before trusting Spiked and those who promote it with anything other than a large pinch of salt, given that Thomas Deichmann, who wrote the libellous article, is a Spiked contributor: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/mar/15/pressandpublishing.tvnews " It was worse still to return to London and find an obscure group of supposed intellectuals putting such effort into trying to convince society that the camps had been a fabrication and that I had committed perjury when testifying to their existence and horrors at the war crimes tribunal at The Hague My friends and colleagues Marshall and Williams - brave reporters of the highest calibre - were being branded as liars. I suffered a whole lot less but there was a steady stream of hate mail. "You piece of shit," read one letter from an LM supporter revelling in the destruction of Vukovar, "probably a nasty little Jew.'"" Freedom of the press includes the freedom to defend your story against people whose agenda includes suppressing it, however much they may claim to be in favour of liberty. Spiked is *not* Charlie Hebdo (an anarchist, far left publication that hates authority and, particularly, fascism of any sort), in any way shape or form - unsurprisingly CH were on the side of the Kosovans in 1999. [obviously, the people the Serbs put into concentration camps were mostly Bosnian Muslims - their appalling treatment there, like the US treatment of Iraqi detainees, has proved immensely valuable to jihadist recruiters since.] |