THE NEWS IS CENSORED (Are Britain's censorship laws too strict?)

Member Name: nona

Product:	Are Britain's censorship laws too strict?
Date:	01/01/03 (178 review reads)
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I used to live in a Third World dictatorship. Yet I found that the newspapers in that dictatorship were surprisingly brave at telling readers the truth.

In Britain our media is heavily censored.

I have tried posting information about the following on the Channel 4 (UK) news forum ( http://community.channel4.com/6/ubb.x?a=frm&s=1626 03557&f=503603557 ) -

1. "On September 15, Newsweek reported: 'U.S. military sources have given the FBI information that suggests five of the alleged hijackers of the planes used in Tuesday's terror attacks received training at secure U.S. military installations in the 1990s.' "

http://www.sumeria.net/politics/bushknew/milsc hool.html

2. "When a van fitting that exact description was stopped just before crossing into New York, the suspicious “middle-easterners” were apprehended. Imagine the surprise of the police officers when these terror suspects turned out to be Israelis!"

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis .html

3. "PARIS, Dec 31 (Reuters) - French police who arrested an airport baggage handler accused of having guns and explosives hidden in his car said on Tuesday they had also arrested a witness who alerted them to the suspect vehicle."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L3138 5519

4. "A United Nations observer at the trial of two Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing has said the judgment appeared to be politically influenced. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/scotland/2 002/lockerbie_appeal/1773868.stm

5. "Van Romero reported that he had studied the videos of the WTC collapse and concluded that the towers were most likely destroyed by carefully placed demolition charges."

http://emperors-clothes.com/news/albu.htm

ALL OF THE POSTS REFERRING TO THE ABOVE INFORMATION APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN DELETED.

My other posts, on m
ore trivial matters, got posted.

I have had similar experiences in trying to get 'news' posted on the BBC website, or printed in the letters columns of newspapers.

My conclusion is that news in Britain is censored.

Our censorship laws on news are too strict.

Fewer and fewer people in Britain are watching news programmes on TV. Fewer and fewer are reading newspapers. Is this because people feel that the official media is too much controlled by the establishment?

Internet news sites seem to be flourishing. Winess the amazing success of www,whatreallyhappened.com

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