[Reader-list] MEDIA WORKERS AGAINST THE WAR (MWAW)

[Harsh Kapoor]

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Harsh

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>MEDIA WORKERS AGAINST THE WAR (MWAW)
>
>http://www.mwaw.org
>
>NEWS RELEASE: Wednesday 17 October, 2001
>TO: Planning editors, peace movement correspondents
>PRESS CONTACT:  Mike Marqusee 0207 275 9399
>
>* Anti-war picket at BBC Broadcasting House 5.30pm Tuesday 23 October
>* MWAW website now up and running
>
>Media Workers Against the War (MWAW) have called a picket of BBC
>Broadcasting House, Portland Place in London, from 5.30 to 8 pm on Tuesday
>23 October. We want to register our support for our colleagues in the BBC
>who are doing all they can to resist government attempts at censorship.
>
>Ten Downing Steet called in broadcasting and newspaper executives to
>instruct them to spin the news, and in particular not to broadcast
>statements by Bin Laden or pictures of dead and wounded civilians in
>Afghanistan. As a result, only the Mirror and Channel 4 News used the
>harrowing pictures from Afghanistan on Monday. Many BBC staff are deeply
>unhappy about this.
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>As media workers, we are also deeply concerned that Radio Shariat, formerly
>Radio Kabul, was obliterated by coalition bombs in the first two days of
>the attacks on
>Kabul.
>
>"The destruction of the national radio station, and the staff working
>there, was presented as an attack on a military target," said Jonathan
>Neale of Media Workers Against the War.
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>"On Tuesday we want to make it very clear that journalists and other media
>workers in this country do not accept that radio stations, like Radio
>Shariat in Kabul and
>Broadcasting House in London, are legitimate targets in any war. There can
>be no freedom of the press where journalists are killed for broadcasting
>their views."
>
>More information can be found at the new MWAW website: http://www.mwaw.org
>
>PRESS CONTACT:Mike Marqusee 0207 275 9399