Reply grudgingly media Pilger hasn't made much of an understand Khmer Rouge to empty the cities and blemish, the overwhelming thrust of Pilger's report was to blame the West for what had happened in Kam. puchea over the past decade.
Once again, John Pilger is right The Headlines produced by the Media Working Group of the TUC, is certainly not lacking in ing.
solutions. Unfortunately, these are so flabby, and generally useless that it would almost be better if the pamphlet didn't ofanyone should ever doubt the TUC's commitment to good old British democracy, right from the outset the pamphlet points out how fortunate we are to have such a free and 'There is much to be proud of' in the British press and 'Our broadcasting services are widely regarded as being among the best in the world.
Amidst all this patriotic flag-waving the pamphlet does admit the misrepresents trade union disputes.
The main problem, as the TUC sees it, is not that strike reports nearly always give only one stat of the story, our that w a society where 'the number of workers in dispute at any one time is tiny' there are any strike wuy reports at all!
In many countries strikes are simply not regarded as news but in Britain they are news and recorded in far more detail than will similar events would be in the national press in other coun tries', the pamphlet complains.
Presumably regards Pravda's coverage of the recent Polish strikes as the that sort of ideal for which should all be working.
So what should be done about this misrepresentation of the 'tiny numbers" involved in,