Monday, June 22, 2009

Stephen Glover on why the Murdoch paper's role in the Iraq wqr should be examined

Stephen Glover's media column in the Independent seems to get more and more controversial.

Today he says that any inquiry into the Iraq war should take a look at Rupert Murdoch's role pointing out that whilst much of the press was horrified at last week's announcement

The Times, however, thinks there should not be an inquiry at all. In a first leader last week the paper grumbled that there had already been two of them, and it doubted that a third could tell us anything we don’t already know.
adding that

There are many aspects of this affair that remain unexamined. One of them is the attitude of some newspapers, in particular the Murdoch-owned Times and Sun, in uncritically promoting the Government’s flawed case for war, and defending, or even omitting to report, its mistakes.

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