Media reporting of Iraqi war is unbalanced

AS the old saying goes the first casualty of war is the truth. Our national broadcaster is not immune.

Media reporting of Iraqi war is unbalanced

The garda estimate of the crowd at the Dublin anti-war protest on March 29 was 8,000 but RTÉ reported it as 20,000 which exactly matches the estimate that the organisers said would turn up. TV3 reported the Garda estimate. Perhaps RTÉ has now allocated staff to counting crowd numbers.

RTÉ has carried on their bias even since the Coalition forces have been victorious.

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