[Media-watch] FW: Wartime media censorship.

Barry White freepress at cpbf.demon.co.uk
Thu Mar 20 15:02:14 GMT 2003


Press owners as media censors! The freedom of the press still belongs to those who own it - it seems.

Barry White
CPBF.
-----Original Message-----
From:	Tom O'Malley [SMTP:tp.omalley at virgin.net]
Sent:	20 March 2003 14:14
To:	TimG at nuj.org.uk; CPBF; Miller, Davie
Subject:	Wartime media censorship.

CENSORSHIP IN LOCAL PRESS
 
The following article appears in the Monmouthshire Beacon,  Thursday
20th March 2003, p.6
 
'BACKING FOR THE TROOP
 
With the prospect of war with Iraq almost inevitable, The Beacon is
totally behind the British troops in the Middle East.
 
Our Proprietor, Sir Ray Tindle, who is chairman and Editor in Chief of
Tindle Newspapers Ltd., said that everyone recognised that Tindle family
newspapers have no political bias.
 
However, he said that , when British troops come under fire during the
conflict in Iraq, he was anxious that nothing should appear which would
attack the decision to conduct the war in which those troops were
involved, nor, of course anything which attacked the troops themselves.
 
"I do this, not just as a proprietor to the newspapers, but as someone
who served as a British soldier from 1944 to 1947 in the Far East" said
Sir Ray.
 
"I know that what our men need most at this time is the felling of
confidence that they are being backed by the folks back home, and are
fighting for them".
 
He said normal newspaper practice would be resumed immediately the
"ceasefire" was given, when any withheld letters or reports may be
published, but in the meantime there would be total support for our men
and women in the Middle East while they are under fire.'
 
 
 
Please email your views to  beacon at internet-today.co.uk
 
Telephone: Monmouth 712 142
 
 








<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>CENSORSHIP IN LOCAL PRESS

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> 

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The following article appears in the Monmouthshire Beacon<span
class=GramE>,  <st1:date
Month="3" Day="20" Year="2003"><span
 style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thursday<font
 size=2 face=Arial> 20th
 March 2003<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, p.6

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> 

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&#8216;BACKING FOR THE TROOP

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> 

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>With the prospect of war with <font
  size=2 face=Arial>Iraq<font
size=2 face=Arial> almost
inevitable, The Beacon is totally behind the British troops in the <font
 size=2 face=Arial>Middle East<font
size=2 face=Arial>.

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> 

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Our Proprietor, Sir Ray Tindle,
who is chairman and Editor in Chief of Tindle
Newspapers Ltd., said that everyone recognised that Tindle
family newspapers have no political bias.

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> 

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>However, he said that , when
British troops come under fire during the conflict in <font
  size=2 face=Arial>Iraq<font
size=2 face=Arial>, he was
anxious that nothing should appear which would attack the decision to conduct
the war in which those troops were involved, nor, of course anything which
attacked the troops themselves.

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> 

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&#8220;I do this, not just as a proprietor to the
newspapers, but as someone who served as a British soldier from 1944 to 1947 in
the <span style='font-size:
 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Far East<font size=2
face=Arial>&#8221; said Sir
Ray.

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> 

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&#8220;I know that what our men need most at this time is
the felling of confidence that they are being backed by the folks back home,
and are fighting for them&#8221;.

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> 

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>He said normal newspaper practice would be resumed
immediately the &#8220;ceasefire&#8221; was given, when any withheld letters or
reports may be published, but in the meantime there would be total support for
our men and women in the <span
 style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Middle East<font
size=2 face=Arial>



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