Thursday, January 29, 2004

Hutton and the support of the center when there is no alternative.
Posted here Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 6:38:39 AM    

The tendency in the Huttton report to support the government and attack the BBC, without a broader perspective on the issues of how a press can cope with a government that creates a war based on  a false picture, is distressing. The support of the center in difficult circumstances is the best argument. Which raises again the ugly issue that apparently there is no alternative policy that coheres so that a society can function.
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