IPS article accuses western journalists of lying in Iraq---

[emcguffie]

I have a PDF, but not a link, although it is probably somewhere on the IPS site. I will look for it.

From InterPress Service Terra Viva

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By Dahr Jamail

ROME, Feb 14 (IPS) - A peoples tribunal has held much of Western media guilty of inciting violence and deceiving people in its reporting of Iraq. The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), an international peoples initiative seeking the truth about the war and occupation in Iraq, made its pronouncement after a three-day meeting here. The tribunal heard testimony from independent journalists, media professors, activists, and member of the European Parliament Michele Santoro.

The Rome session of the WTI followed Western Media Guilty of Deception in Iraq others in Brussels, London, Mumbai, New York, Hiroshima-Tokyo, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Lisbon. The Rome meeting focused on the media role. Its pronouncement came as the Independent Commission for Elections in Iraq announced a 47.6 percent voter turnout, against claims in western mainstream media that the figure would be above 60 percent. The informal panel of WTI judges accused the United States and the British governments of impeding journalists in performing their task, and intentionally producing lies ...

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[Angry Girl]

1. Here's the link - Good article!

http://ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=27429

[slipslidingaway]

2. Thanks, good article n/t