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Chemical weapons and cover-ups: the Western media's Syrian shame
Myers, Fraser
http://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/10/chemical-weapons-cover-ups-western-medias-syrian-shame/Date Written: 2020-07-10 Publisher: Spiked Year Published: 2020 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24750 How Western media shapes public perception with regards to chemical weapons in Syria. Abstract: - Excerpt Since then, even more evidence has emerged showing internal at the OPCW and a cover-up. As Peter Hitchens has reported, when Ian Henderson learned that his findings would not be included in the final OPCW report, he lodged a copy in a secure registry called Documents Registry Archive (DRA). But emails, from a senior OPCW official called for this to be covered up.'Plese get this document out of DRA...And please remove all traces, if any, of its delivery / storage / whatever in DRA', the official wrote. According to an internal memo seen by the Mail on Sunday, 'as many as 20 OPCW staff have expressed private doubts about the suppression of information or the manipulation of evidence'. And yet the story of the cover-up has been largely ignored in the mainstream media. Though every national outlet covered the 'official' (that is, edited) version of events, few covered any of the leaks that cast doubt on it. Peter Hitchens, Jonathan Steele and the Independent's Robert Fisk are among the few 'mainstream' journalists to have taken the leaks seriously - and Steele's account was published on the radical US website Counterpunch, not in the mainstream press. Aside from that, it has largely fallen to alternative media, such as the Grayzone, to cover the story in detail. Subject Headings |