UK media ignore Murdoch role in Iraq war

[dipsydoodle]

After weeks of hue and cry about the Murdoch gate there seems to be a prevalent unwritten agreement among the British main stream media to ignore a fact.

While the British ordinary citizens are buried under piles of news about Murdoch'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's worst allegation : the endorsement of illegal war in Iraq.

Media observers accuse Murdoch's newspapers of being the main newspaper propagandizing the fraudulent military conflicts.

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: "I think Tony is being extraordinarily courageous and strong on what his stance is in the Middle East."

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/189505.html

I'm grateful to DU'er Skidmore for this link. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1519855&mesg_id=1519905

[T_i_B]

1. One reason why the UK media may be ignoring this...

...is that most of them (including the Observer at the time) supported the Iraq invasion, and most of them are still pretending that it was a good idea in the face of all the evidence.

Murdoch interfered in a wide range of UK policy making, not just the Iraq war and the question of how much influence he had over politicans (most notably Tony Blair) is one that may well come up in due course.