posted by Dori in TheWar.

World Tribunal? What World Tribunal?

Media Lens has detected a recent shift in media reporting. It is hard to quantify, but there is a palpable uneasiness amongst media professionals at the increasing rise of the *blogosphere* and internet-based *alternative* media sites. Joe and Jo Public are increasingly aware that the news and commentary distributed by the BBC, ITN, Channel 4 news and the liberal broadsheets, are protecting major war criminals in London and Washington.

A blanket of almost total media silence covers Bush and Blair*s crimes in Iraq, and their support for relentless corporate exploitation around the globe. These war criminals continue to be presented as world-straddling father figures who could *solve* poverty in Africa and so become the beloved figureheads of a “great generation”.

Contains emails, contacts for BBC, campaign to get them to cover the tribunals and report on findings. Very urgent that we continue to learn about this important work of the World Tribunal on Iraq.