fotdmike | January 29, 2009
Update (added 0204 29.01.09): There’s been a blog set up for students to post their reports. Its at Occupation Nottingham – The following email was sent out just three hours ago… (28 January 2009) Nottingham University Occupied for Gaza Calling all Students: Join our open Occupation A group of students, from all backgrounds, has peacefully [...]
fotdmike | January 27, 2009
And this is the video the BBC and other mainstream media didn’t want you to see… According to Redress Information & Analysis “money and ideology are behind the BBC’s decision not to broadcast Gaza humanitarian appeal”. The BBC’s refusal to broadcast a humanitarian appeal for Gaza on behalf of a group of charities is motivated [...]
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"TaW" = "Tilting at Windmills" so "TawNews" represents the newsy-type area of TaW. To explain...
Having become thoroughly disgusted by the bias, spin, and blatant non-reporting of certain types of events on the part of the mainstream media we find ourselves having much greater confidence in the independent, alternative, and "citizen journalist" news sources.
TawNews is our effort toward promoting those sources through links, dynamic feeds, and the occasional reproduction of selected content.
As our own contribution, in some small measure, we also periodically post reportage of our own.
That said, we freely admit to having our own bias... in a direction markedly different to that of the mainstream media!
[P.S. "We", in all instances, is "fotdmike" and a small select bunch of friends!]
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