{"id":30370,"date":"2011-07-19T07:17:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T07:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=30370"},"modified":"2011-07-22T16:04:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T16:04:29","slug":"uk-media-ignore-murdoch-role-in-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=30370","title":{"rendered":"UK media ignore Murdoch role in Iraq war"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Press TV \u2013 July 18, 2011<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">After weeks of hue and cry about the Murdoch gate there seems to be a prevalent unwritten agreement among the British mainstream media to ignore a fact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While the British ordinary citizens are buried under piles of news about Murdoch&#8217;s empire hacking into the voicemails of the royal family, celebrities, high-ranking politicians, a murdered teenager and the relatives of the dead soldiers , almost all media fail to report Murdoch&#8217;s worst allegation: the endorsement of illegal war in Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Media observers accuse Murdoch&#8217;s newspapers of being the main newspaper propagandizing the fraudulent military conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>The media tycoon had given his full support to the illegal Iraq war, and many times praised former Prime Minister Tony Blair for his courage saying: &#8220;I think Tony is being extraordinarily courageous and strong on what his stance is in the Middle East.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>News International papers began doing their best convincing people about what they called the grave threat of Saddam Hussein weapons, even two years before the publication of the government&#8217;s dossier on Iraq&#8217;s non-existent Weapon of Mass Destruction.<\/p>\n<p>As the UK government was beating the drums of the war louder in 2003 , Murdoch&#8217;s newspaper initiated even more pro-war propaganda. Murdoch who was the strong supporter of attacking Iraq and ousting Saddam, even said: &#8220;The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That&#8217;s bigger than any tax cut in the any country.&#8221; However after the invasion News International never apologized for the false information they had published pushing the economy to the brink of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch&#8217;s papers and TV channels have been backing all the wars imposed by Britain for the last thirty years and have continued backing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Murdoch&#8217;s media empire has even prepared the ground to keep the war in Libya going.<\/p>\n<p>One may ask which one is more guilty? The Murdoch&#8217;s corporation or the other British media which are deliberately turning a\u00a0blind eye to his roles in recent wars?<\/p>\n<p>SAB\/HE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/189505.html\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the controversy engulfing Murdoch\u2019s media one aspect is being studiously ignored. Yet it may be News International\u2019s worst wrongdoing   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,28,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Afghanistan","category-Iraq","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30644,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30370\/revisions\/30644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}