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| − | :Mike Nolan said: “Unlike Bruce, I have no intention of breaking my confidentiality on what went on between the two of us. I completely refute his version of events. “It is wrong to suggest I doctor scripts. Bruce was certainly not alone in having his material subbed. When material was reduced I nearly always took the time to explain why. Bruce’s claim he ran into trouble when he reported friendly remarks made by PM Blair about Islam is untrue. I am not censored by the Foreign Office; I did not censor Bruce. BSN prides itself on providing accurate and balanced information on news and developments in the UK.”<ref>Bruce Whitehead [ My tour of duty as a British propagandist] The UK government seeks to boost pro-British sentiment in the Middle East through news management at a government-funded TV news agency. BRUCE WHITEHEAD used to work there. Spinwatch, 17 September 2007, accessed 24 February 2010</ref> | + | :Mike Nolan said: “Unlike Bruce, I have no intention of breaking my confidentiality on what went on between the two of us. I completely refute his version of events. “It is wrong to suggest I doctor scripts. Bruce was certainly not alone in having his material subbed. When material was reduced I nearly always took the time to explain why. Bruce’s claim he ran into trouble when he reported friendly remarks made by PM Blair about Islam is untrue. I am not censored by the Foreign Office; I did not censor Bruce. BSN prides itself on providing accurate and balanced information on news and developments in the UK.”<ref>Bruce Whitehead [http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/49-propaganda/4317-my-tour-of-duty-as-a-british-propagandist My tour of duty as a British propagandist] The UK government seeks to boost pro-British sentiment in the Middle East through news management at a government-funded TV news agency. BRUCE WHITEHEAD used to work there. Spinwatch, 17 September 2007, accessed 24 February 2010</ref> |
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Revision as of 19:54, 25 February 2010
Mike Nolan is 'a former deputy head of Sky News and former senior foreign editor at ITN' and was the editor of British Satellite News, a Foreign Office funded propaganda outlet in 2006.[1]
Contents
ITN
While at ITN in 1992 Nolan accompanied two injured ITN reportes back from Sarajevo:[2]
- A SERBIAN surgeon escaped from Sarajevo to Britain yesterday with two injured ITN newsmen whose wounds he had treated. Dr Milomir Ninkovic arrived at Heathrow airport from Zagreb on a private plane chartered by ITN to bring home its cameramen Nigel Thomson and Jim Dutton... Yesterday Mike Nolan, ITN's senior foreign editor, who arrived at Heathrow with the men, would not give details about their escape. He said there was nothing illegal in bringing the doctor into Britain. Dr Ninkovic would only stay the weekend and then travel to Innsbruck to meet up with his family and take up a new surgeon's post.
BSN
Nolan was appointed to BSN in May 2001.[3]
Propaganda?
- Mike Nolan said: “Unlike Bruce, I have no intention of breaking my confidentiality on what went on between the two of us. I completely refute his version of events. “It is wrong to suggest I doctor scripts. Bruce was certainly not alone in having his material subbed. When material was reduced I nearly always took the time to explain why. Bruce’s claim he ran into trouble when he reported friendly remarks made by PM Blair about Islam is untrue. I am not censored by the Foreign Office; I did not censor Bruce. BSN prides itself on providing accurate and balanced information on news and developments in the UK.”[4]
Resources
- Terms of Service agreement between World Television and the Foreign Office to provide British Satellite News. Released under the Freedom of Information Act
- David Miller, The British Government's global fake news network, Spinwatch, 15 February 2006
- David Miller The propaganda we pass off as news around the world A British government-funded fake TV news service allows mild criticism of the US - all the better to support it, The Guardian, Wednesday February 15, 2006.
- Mike Nolan Response: We do not spout propaganda - we report news Yes, we are a government funded broadcaster, but that does not influence our journalism,The Guardian Friday February 24, 2006.
Notes
- ↑ Mike Nolan Response: We do not spout propaganda - we report news Yes, we are a government funded broadcaster, but that does not influence our journalism,The Guardian Friday February 24, 2006.
- ↑ MARY BRAID Injured ITN cameramen bring Serbian surgeon back to UK Saturday, 22 August 1992, First Edition
- ↑ NOLAN NAMED EDITOR, Broadcast, 25 May, 2001, accessed 24 February 2010
- ↑ Bruce Whitehead My tour of duty as a British propagandist The UK government seeks to boost pro-British sentiment in the Middle East through news management at a government-funded TV news agency. BRUCE WHITEHEAD used to work there. Spinwatch, 17 September 2007, accessed 24 February 2010
