Nick Cohen spells it out:
If whites ran Press TV, one would have no difficulty in saying it was a neo-Nazi network. It welcomes British Holocaust-deniers such as Nicholas Kollerstrom, fascist ideologues such as Peter Rushton, the leader of the White Nationalist party – an organisation that disproves the notion that the only thing further to the right of the BNP is the wall – along with, until recently, Ken Livingstone, Labour’s candidate for mayor of London, who showed no embarrassment about the company his Iranian paymasters kept.
Press TV is not just a home for those with exterminationist fantasies about wiping Israel off the map, but a platform for the full fascist conspiracy theory of supernatural Jewish power. Other fantasies follow. The 9/11 attacks on Washington and New York and 7/7 attacks on London were inside jobs, according to its commentators. Plots emanating from Buckingham Palace, and orchestrated by that sinister figure, the Queen, threaten its journalists.
As pertinently, the hatreds it fosters are as much directed against Iranians as the regime’s enemies. Press TV shows once again that the first task for servants of a dictatorship is to control their own people. Writing on Gozaar, an invaluable website from Iran’s democratic opposition, a former journalist described how eager his colleagues were to justify the suppression of Iran’s 2009 uprising. A handful of anchors and photographers quit their jobs, he said, but most had no problem churning out reports that labelled protesters as terrorists.
The loyal hacks were not only Iranian mozdoor – “mercenaries” – as they are known in Tehran, but foreign journalists too. “The majority of the American-Iranian and British-Iranian staffers championed Press TV’s coverage as a counterbalance to what they considered biased warping of the story by western media,” the ex-reporter said. “Iranian knee-jerk conspiracy thinking was embossed in their minds.”
Not much “due impartiality and due accuracy” in Press TV’s reporting of the Iranian revolution then: it was all cover-up and no coverage. Nor did the network give due prominence or right of reply to those who opposed Iran’s support for Syria’s suppression of its revolutionaries. Jody Sabral, who by her own account was a rather naive reporter, took a job as Press TV’s Istanbul correspondent. She thought it would be her “lucky break” into broadcasting. She wised up fast and appealed to liberal-leftists who make excuses for anti-western tyrannies – come on, you know who you are – to hear her out.
After months of ignoring the Syrian revolt against Iran’s clients in the ruling Alawite clique, a Press TV editor allowed her to go to Turkey’s border with Syria to talk to the refugees running for their lives. On no account was she to discuss their suffering, however. The real “story” was that Turkey was smuggling weapons to the Syrian revolutionaries. “When I asked what our source was, he couldn’t answer, and instead he replied, ‘Turkey will do anything to get into the EU.’ It was a laughable response and I obviously refused to go.”
She resigned and told tyrannophile westerners that the “next time you blindly back an alternative voice such as Press TV because it suits your own political view take a moment to question the quality of that information”.
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What is astonishing is to read the keen jerk hate-flecked Leftism in some of the comments underneath.
The actual racist, annihiliationist filth that Press TV broadcasts doesn’t register with them. They are in bed with this vile entity.
Yes, if you want to ever compile a catalogue of all the best tyrannophilic knee-jerk views, read the comments that follow. Be warned, you will probably need to shower afterwards.
Of course it’s OK for Nick Cohen to promote war, invasion and torture in the pages of the Observer.
If Ofcom should ban Press TV for promoting an agenda then it’s only fair they should ban every single other news channel on air as well.
PressTV isn’t being banned for broadcasting its agenda, it’s being banned for an administrative error and refusing to pay the fine imposed by OFCOM.
in my opinion PressTV doesn’t even qualify as a news network, it’s as credible as FOX, the station is more of an entertainment network, if you want to ever have a glimpse at what the extremist political views of people on the opposite side to FOX are, you check out PressTV, it’s entertainment. Barely any of the stories on PressTV are factual, they always begin with ‘a researcher says’ or ‘a lawmaker says’ followed by something about how Iran will cripple the entire world if attacked, these are the ludicrous stories it publishes as fact when the truth is no one with any real power or significance has made these statements.
The stories on their website are a breeding ground for hatred of the West, they never report on anything bad about Iran, you never see the types of stories you see on say SkyNews, where the station happily criticises the government. PressTV only reports on what everyone else is doing, PressTV wouldn’t report on corruption in the Iranian government but they do report on things such as a destroyer entering the Persian Gulf, leading with titles such as “Destroyer, a moving target for iran”
PressTV also censors its comments section, repeatedly i have tried to counter or make mention of the misinformed articles only to have my comment never be published and yet the comments section to virtually every article is filled with ‘Death to the West’ statements. i even tried to comment on this article http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220167.html that Goebbels should be referred to as infamous rather than famous in the 8th line, even that was censored, and yet the comment section is filled with anti-Semitic statements. i urge anyone who reads this to try and comment on any PressTV article with a pro west, anti Iran or critical statement of PressTV itself and see if you have more luck than me.
sorry for the long comment but once i started ranting i couldn’t stop.
Press TV in my opinion has done a fantasic job in allowing real debate in the news today. It’s allowed a platform for excellent scholars, politicians, writers and many more to come on and explore voice their opinions and views. These great men and woman have been allowed this opportunity because i feel press tv wants truth to prevail, and unfortunately these credible people are not given any airtime on the so called”real news channels”
The truth is people like Nick Cohen have a zionist agenda, anything against the Zionist plots weather it be factual or opinions must be blocked, everyone knows zionist are at work in the UK just as they are in the USA, they are trying to corrupt government and distort media to favour their views and agenda’s.
Did you know it’s illigal to deny the hollocaust? Now i don’t deny the Jewish people were persecuted, and what happened to them was completely shocking and in-humane (kind of like what’s happening to Palestinians now) but this is not the issue some on press TV want to explorel, the issue they have is the numbers have been distorted, it wasn’t 6 million Jews killed during the holocaust.
Press TV in my opinion has done a fantastic job in allowing real debate in the news today. It’s allowed a platform for excellent scholars, politicians, writers and many more to come on and explore voice their opinions and views. These great men and woman have been allowed this opportunity because I feel press TV wants truth to prevail, and unfortunately these credible people are not given any airtime on the so called “real news channels”
The truth is people like Nick Cohen have a Zionist agenda, anything against the Zionist plots whether it be factual or opinions must be blocked, everyone knows Zionist are at work in the UK just as they are in the USA, they are trying to corrupt government and distort media to favour their views and agenda’s.
Did you know it’s illegal to deny the holocaust? Now i don’t deny the Jewish people were persecuted, and what happened to them was completely shocking and in-humane (kind of like what’s happening to Palestinians now) but this is not the issue some on press TV want to explore, the issue they have is the numbers have been distorted, it wasn’t 6 million Jews killed during the holocaust.
Now i have always believed there was 6 million killed by the order of Hitler, but i learnt the truth from press TV and i learnt about who has tried to cover the truth, the same people in fact who are behind the shutdown of press TV and the same people who have jailed, university professors, and credible authors who are all white. Now with press TV Nick is right they would be called Nazi’s if they were white, but they’re not so instead they become anti-Semitic, or extremists or whatever other labels the Zionists have developed for them, but the professors and writers, intellectuals and academics who are white are accused of being Nazi’s or Nazi sympathisers. Why? Because they investigated the holocaust and the studies prove that not in a million years could the Nazis of massacred around 6 Million Jews in World war 2. The numbers simply do not add up, then books and articles speculate as to why such a number could be estimated and to what benefit that would have and to whom.
It’s a modern day myth, backed by every World leader apart from the odd few, who do not agree to accept the version of history being forced to us by Zionists.
Finally i would just like to say there is another way of getting press TV, just down load the app, and follow the website for regular decent news. In the mean time I’m shutting down my sky box and i hope many others do the same.
Press TV were caught out on a minor charge for some baloney off com made up which they were in fact compliant too, but of com decided to boot them off air anyway.
Just so that everone knows not all Jews accept 6 million were killed during the holocaust Norman Finklestein is a true Jew, one that faces death threats every day because his mother was a holocaust survivor, he is one who accepts what happened was horrendous but after his research he concludes it is physically humanly impossible to kill that many jews in the places they were supposed to have been killed within the time frames stated in history, many other who share this view and have expressed it are jailed, just google them, you’ll find many academics and intellectuals are serving prison sentences as i type this because they dispute the 6 million number.
Not all Zionists are Jewish, I hope everyone knows this, and hopefully the full truth will flourish one day without being stamped out by the Zionists.
Press TV in my opinion has done a fantasic job in allowing real debate in the news today.
You’ve missed your meds again.
Nope, he’s just ideologically racist.
I have also watched press tv with some amusement, It mentions nothing about Syrian anti govenment protesters being killed everyday but will happily tell you about a Yemeni anti govenment protester being killed, or a anti government protester being arrested in Saudi Arabia or Bahrain.
News about what goes on inside Iran is about as rare as rocking horse poo, but you you will get plenty of news about occupy wall st protesters being beaten by the police, or lots of other anti American or anti western propaganda but real substance is hard to come by, it is worse than fox news by far,but at least with fox news you can have a bit of a giggle at it’s attempts at being a serious news channel.
@Sam Shaw if you have found the truth via presstv then i strongly urge you you look at more credible sources, PressTV has been proven to make up news stories specifically when it claimed over 1000 Somalians were killed by US drone strikes, when in fact this was 100% untrue and as the US does not comment on drone strikes there is often no one to deny this, except the deaths of a thousand people in somalia is more significant and gained more attention than pressTV’s usual story of 4 killed in Afghan mountains by US drone strike (i dont deny that the US often uses drones to carry out missions) but there isn’t really any way to disprove these accusations as the US wont comment on it. PressTV also wont give the names of the lawmakers, political analysts and researchers which make up 80% of their articles so there is no way to determine their credibility as it is likely most of the people writing for presstv or being quoted on PressTV are known to have extremist political views (extremist in its literal meaning, i’m not saying terrorists write for presstv just people whose views are a bit out there)
just to back up my claim here are 3 separate sources commenting on it.
* http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=98b_1323027390&comments=1
* http://honestreporting.com/press-tv-faked-1370-somali-deaths-by-us-drones/
* http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/12/02/iranian-tv-station-faked-1370-somali-deaths-by-us-drones/