John Leach's Blog » corporate media http://johnleach.co.uk/words Stuff I think, see and do Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:57:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 White Terrorists White Washed http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2006/10/09/240/white-terrorists-white-washed http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2006/10/09/240/white-terrorists-white-washed#comments Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:08:52 +0000 john http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2006/10/09/240/ So, a BNP election candidate has been accused of possessing the largest amount of chemical explosives of its type ever found in Britain. The government held a press conference. I read it on the BBC.

The guy was charged under the Explosives Substances Act 1883 last Monday. Another guy has been charged with similar offences. Yeah, I read it in the Guardian.

It has been reported that police discovered a rocket launcher, a nuclear biological suit, chemicals and BNP literature. It was right there in the Independent.

I’m glad to see that our government and corporate media treat all acts of terrorism equally, be they committed by brown people or be they committed by white people.

]]> http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2006/10/09/240/white-terrorists-white-washed/feed 4 News Sniffer: Revisionista http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2006/09/10/237/news-sniffer-revisionista http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2006/09/10/237/news-sniffer-revisionista#comments Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:28:40 +0000 john http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2006/09/10/237/ The latest News Sniffer project went live today: Revisionista. It tracks changes in corporate news articles and marks the differences. So you can choose a BBC news article and see how it’s changed since it was first created. Most changes are on breaking new articles which get updated as more information becomes available, but some changes are rather telling of policy.

Currently only the BBC is monitored, but it’s pretty easy for me to add support for any site with an RSS feed.

Some examples:

“Many Palestinians feel Mr Blair has ignored their suffering” changed to
“Mr Blair met with the families of captured Israeli soldiers”.
http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/articles/918/diff/12/13

On Cuba, the following quote disappears: “In the US, many investors are hoping for a share in the spoils of any future development”
http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/articles/874/diff/0/1

Ismail Haniya’s negative quotes regarding Blair disappear.http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/articles/890/diff/2/3

US sanctions responsible for Iran plane crash? Of course not!
http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/articles/114/diff/7/8

Accusations of US torture become claims of “clandestine CIA activity”.
http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/articles/661/diff/0/1

Iran may well claim its nuclear programme has the sole goal of generating civilian power, but the BBC would rather you forget that.
http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/articles/552/diff/2/3

I wonder what the threshold is that turns “a small number of protestors” into “Thousands”
http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/articles/462/diff/0/1

Negative quotes about the government disappear.
http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/articles/383/diff/8/9

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