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NEWS ... GLOBAL NEWS ... 1990 and appear to be declining this | FAKE NEWS FROMPR COMPANIES | be visible for as long as the material is on- year (1991). "FAKE NEWS, A SPECIAL REPORT: | screen." Worldwatch attributed the drop | WHAT WE SEE ISN'T ALWAYS NEWS - | (Source: David Leiberman, TV Guide, USA) primarily to the collapse of economies | ITS PUBLIC RELATIONS" is the title of YET MORE ON THE GULF WAR in Eastern Europe and the Soviet | TV Guide's February 22-28 1992 (US) cover The people's mood in America and Union, which rely heavily an coal. oar}. 7 > overseas is changing about the Gulf War, but (Source: Public Power Weekly, a weekly This is a surprisingly hard-hitting exposé | gown under in little old “media controlled" publication from the American Public Power | of how TV newsrooms use the "Video News | Australia, we just concentrate on the same Association, December 16th 1991. Accessed | Release" (VNR) in their news programmes. | old news on every TV station (except SBS), via Pegasus Networks, Byron Bay) Examples show how companies, foreign | eyery radio station, and every newspaper. countries, and candidates, get practically free The anniv f the Gulf War h: BAL WARMING TO is = ing bl Gapeleagee Deaicige ot advertising. Their PR people create VNRS, | pronght with it revelations about the myth of INCREASE ICE CAPS? distribute them to 700-plus local TV outlets, | 4 surgical, video game war. According to Dr Gifford Miller, of where resource strained organisations The Patriot anti-missile shot down NO the University of Colorado, and Dr. | incorporate the material into newscast. TV | scud missiles! Only 6% of the bombs were Anne de Vernal of Quebec at Montreal, | Guide deplore the common practice of TY | ages Jn fact, one third of the bombs if global warming proceeds as forecast, | Outlets using VNRs without identifying the dropped on Iraqi targets DID NOT it could Calls wie = moytmerm | source. EXPLODE at all, causing some 1400 people hemisphere's ice sheets to expand, Included is an excellent sidebar, "Portions | to gate to be killed in explosions of much as they did at the beginning of | of the GULF WAR were brought to you by | unexploded weapons in Kuwait alone! ee ~-- the folks at Hill & Knowlton." A | phe deliberate allied bombing of 95 Their study concluded that in the | shocking revelation: " ... the PR firm's hospitals and health centres, 686 schools, 25 past, warmer seas caused more water to | operatives were given free rein to travel | cioctrical installations, 8 major dams that evaporate, producing the moisture for | unescorted throughout Saudi Arabia, while provided power and irrigation, sanitation increased precipitation in winter. It | journalists were severely restricted." plants, factories, roads, bridges, food would have fallen as snow and The editors of TV Guide made a strong | treatment plants, sewage treatment plants, compressed into ice which | statement: "Recommended: When a TV | and populated civilian areas has been accumulated and advanced southward. | news organisation includes film or tape Source: “Will Green House Warming Lead to | prepared by an outside source in a broadcast, Northern Hemisphere Ice-Sheet Growth?", | the label ‘VIDEO SUPPLIED BY NATURE, 16th January 1992, pages 244-246) | [COMPANY OR GROUP NAME] should exposed in recent investigations, Some estimates put the number of deaths during the war as high as 300,000! Since the war, nearly 100,000 civilians have died due to lack of food, clean water, and improper sanitation resulting from the bombing campaign. On February 22nd, the Pentagon released a report admitting U.S. bombs and rockets destroyed Iraq's electric, water and sewage systems, seriously damaging civilian life. The Pentagon now merely insist the death and destruction was “an error, a result of poor communication”. PETER SAWYER, THE BILL OF RIGHTS, & AUSTRALIA'S NEW DICTATOR? On Friday, January 10th, Peter Sawyer, editor of Inside News, put to air on the "Inside Hotline" [0055 63307] a story about the Governor General, Bill Hayden, approving a totally illegal, totally seditious "Bill of Rights", officially known as The PETER SAWYER, THE BILL OF RIGHTS, & AUSTRALIA'S NEW DICTATOR? Ss ee —- Fe APRIL-MAY 1992 8*NEXUS YET MORE ON THE GULF WAR