THE DAILY MIRROR, vacillating newspaper. reflects the views of the Labour leadership, launched a vicious attack on the Sun newspaper last Saturday. It was replying to the accusation made by the Sun that the Daily Mirror, the Guardian and Peter Snow of the BBC were guilty of 'treason for not supporting Thatcher's war enough.
Said the Mirror: The Sun is to journalism what Or Josef Goebbels was to truth, and suggested that every copy of the Sun should carry a government health warning: "reading this newspaper TEEN damage your mind"
The editor of the Guar dam. Peter tiernerineton said that the Guardian would not reply since Sun readers don't tend to see the Guardian and vice verinfuriated the Mirror of course was the the Guardian and the BBC ort, albeit in the case o the Mirror and the Guardian with shightly less overthe-top *Nuke Buenos Aires'-style enthusiasm.
The staunchly defended own Baliots! Both supported the sending of the fleet.
truth is, despite the Sun's ravings. that the whole of the media, both TV and press, have engaged in an orgy of social patriotism. As Tony Bens rightly pointed out, BBC bulletins have been turned into half-hour long propaganda broadcasts for Ministry 0f Defence.
and which generally crusade enthusiastically MoD spokesperson, the sinister and creepy lan WISCOOTE has been turned into a media cult time to purvey the government's heavily accounts of what is going on.
Obvious lies have been taken as good comn earlete in at the Argentinian patrol blown out of the water by the King helicopters with the loss aves had *opened fire on helivs bulletin have ITN news bulletin been even Alastair PUISE the Economist and TN Burnett, Thatcher former editor supremo is given free rein COTT ments at te ena or eacn edition of "News at Ten"
But without doubt the crudest and The MOD's Dalek gives the news been crudely displayed in its systematic use or me term "Argies" to describe Argentinian soldiers thus "British Warship sunk by Argies' *1200 Argies drown and so on.
When it comes to some 'analysis* the Sun is just as demented: *Argentina is in the grip of uncontrollable fuelled by impossible fantasies..
Unlike of course the Thatcher government, which as everyone knows Italians' — and as all rightthinking. TV wewers know, Italians are excitable, given to uncontrollable passions and regularly throw up posturThe whole sickening business has been given a filip by ment in the Commons that much of the news medie coverage has been "deeply because ring to British troops as 'the British' rather than • MANY FEARED DEAD MISSILE GOT HER • HMS SHEFFIELD DOWN