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Anti-war group slams the BBC


A MUSWELL Hill anti-war group has launched a campaign against the BBC's Iraq coverage. The Muswell Hill Stop The War Group, which counts Victoria Wood and Juliet Stevenson among its backers, has accused the corporation of unfair reporting. Robin Beste, 60, from Muswell Road, complained about Newsnight's coverage on the assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja. Mr Beste said: "The broadcasts are simply a one dimensional justification of the assault...


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Anti-war group slams the BBC

Jonathan Marciano

22 November 2004 - A MUSWELL Hill anti-war group has launched a campaign against the BBC's Iraq coverage.

The Muswell Hill Stop The War Group, which counts Victoria Wood and Juliet Stevenson among its backers, has accused the corporation of unfair reporting.

Robin Beste, 60, from Muswell Road, complained about Newsnight's coverage on the assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja.

Mr Beste said: "The broadcasts are simply a one dimensional justification of the assault.

"There was a long cast of pro-war commentators, with no counter-balancing opinion to represent what is, according to all recent polls, the view held by 50 per cent of the British public who oppose the war in Iraq.

"They did not show the results of the bombardment on the civilians living there."

He also suggested that the corporation has been afraid to criticise the government since the fallout from the Hutton report.

The campaign is now urging its 1,000 members to report biased coverage or stories trumpeting allied successes.

Muswell Hill has become a hotbed of activism since the war started nearly two years ago.

In March last year 60 children left Fortismere school in Tetherdown at breaktime and marched to Westminster.

The coalition receives around 40 new emails a day asking about its activities.

Muswell Hill celebrity supporters include actor Vincent Ebrahim from the Kumars at No.42, best-selling author and illustrator Ros Asquith, and Professor Harold Rosen, Emeritus professor at the university of London.

Their youngest campaigner is eleven and the oldest is 94.

Editor of Newsnight Peter Barron told the group: "The issue of whether the war in Iraq was, and is, right or wrong is an extremely important one.

"We have debated that issue on literally scores of occasions before and have no doubt will continue to do so in the future.

"The events were unfolding in the course of the evening and our primary aim was to find out what was happening and explain it. We certainly didn't attempt to justify or condemn the assault."

"I completely accept that many people in Britain oppose the war and the latest assault on Falluja. Polls suggest the figure has risen to 57 per cent and we are committed to reflecting this. The Hutton controversy has absolutely no bearing on the editorial decisions we make on Newsnight."

Mr Beste, who has been a political activist since he was 11, said of the anti-war movement: "There has never been a campaign like this in my lifetime.

"Normally you feel you are on the sidelines. But here we feel ourselves swimming with the tide."

Jonathan Marciano -
@hamhigh.co.uk


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