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From: John Meed <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 20:33:48 +0100
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Subject: May 2 programme
Dear 'The World'
I was interested to hear Zenab Badawi begin tonight's 'The World' with the
statement that development of nuclear weapons by 'rogue states' and others
was 'the greatest threat' to world peace today.
It became apparent that Zenab was talking about states like North Korea. But
which state actually dropped nuclear weapons on Japan at the end of World
War 2? Which state, according to today's Independent, is planning to replace
its Trident programme with even more modern, more lethal weapons? And which
two countries hold the vast majority of the world's nuclear weapons? The
answers respectively are of course, the USA, the UK and the USA and Russia.
Why, I wonder, should we fear North Korea more than these, when two of the
states concerned have recently invaded other countries and that the third is
busy wiping out Chechens?
Your reporter then went on to make many more unfounded comments - for
example, that the anti-nuclear movement is not as important as it was. There
was no shred of evidence put forward to support the claim.
Please could you ask Zenab and your other reporters to choose their words
with greater care? There are many other 'great threats' to world peace
today, including world poverty, the Israeli/Palestine conflict, the tendency
for the USA to wander round the world attacking countries at its whim, and
so forth. So let's keep things in proportion, and leave the tendentious
assertions to people clearly identified as such, rather than your own
supposedly objective presenters.
Yours
John Meed
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