Posted by The Editors
on November 7, 2009, 11:54 am, in reply to "Re: my email to Paxman"
Dear Jeremy and Peter,
It was interesting to read recently of your admission that you were
"hoodwinked". Why was it I and a million others who marched on 15th
February 2003 weren't taken in by the propaganda? Perhaps because we
understood the need to examine the facts and not take the
pronouncements of those in power at their word.
You also stated:
“I’d plea for an unwillingness to believe what you’re told. It seems
to me you want to have an instinctive distrust of powerful vested
interests.”
Well that is exactly my mindset but why wasn't it yours at that
crucial time? Are you putting your fine words into practice?
In the same interview you referred to "Irans nuclear weapons
programme". As you must be aware such a programme is alleged by those
who are rather keen to attack Iran as they did Iraq. The cost of your
being hoodwinked along with the rest of the corporate media is the
devastation of Iraq with over a million dead and 4 million refugees.
Can we expect Newsnight to perhaps show some scepticism when it comes
to reporting the allegations of those in power?
Yours sincerely,
R Speechley
I read a rather depressing litany of your comments about believing the Vietnamese holocaust denier Colin Powell's claims about Saddam Hussain before the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Iraq people (but not Iraqi oil) on the Medialens interweb site.
Sad to say I was not surprised because Newsnight became a soap opera disguised as a news programme in the late '80s.
Out of curiosity I would like to know something. Had you not been bamboozled by Powell et al, would you have been able to keep your lucrative job as a newsreader on ComBBC? Perhaps I underestimate you but I do get the whiff of pieces of silver (admittedly a lot more than thirty).
Regards, Keith
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