[Media-watch] Blair’s standing ovation, CBS cancels and Australia’s Samidzat

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Blair’s defence of his record on Iraq given standing ovation 
Following Prime Minister Tony Blair’s speech to the Labour Party conference, the press posed the question: Had he done enough to unite the party and heal the divisions within it over the Iraq war?
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/71470344?-573
 
CBS cancels broadcast on Bush’s use of forged Iraqi WMD documents
In a development that highlights the cowardice and subservience of the US media—and suggests there is far more to the so-called “memogate” affair at CBS News than has so far been made public—the network confirmed September 27 that it had cancelled a planned “60 Minutes” broadcast exposing the use of forged documents by the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraq war.
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/71470340?-573
 
Australia’s Samidzat
In 1983, the principal media in the Western world, which dominate much of the media in the rest of the world, were owned by 50 corporations. In 2002, this had fallen to nine transnational companies. Rampant deregulation has ended even a semblance of diversity.
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/71468283?-573
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