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--- Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Here are all the articles so far in the UK press, > all from today (7 > Feb), in the order included below: > > 1. Financial Times, `Government document contains > errors' (p. 2) > 2. Independent, `The Iraq crisis: propaganda - > Downing Street accused > of dossier plagiarism old articles' (p. 2) > 3. Press Association, `No. 10 accused of > plagiarising Iraq dossier' > 4. Guardian, `UK dossier lifted evidence' (p. 5) > > I found no articles in the US press, surprise, or > anywhere else. If > you find any let me know. > > I've written to the "Democracy Now!" radio programme > in America -- the > only free speech on the airwaves there -- pointing > them to the Channel > 4 story. They've interviewed Glen before so maybe > again. > > The FT article skillfully downplays the story. The > headline mentions > 'errors' rather than plagiarism or even 'lifting' > (the Guardian). The > lead paragraph says only that `researchers' claim it > is a > cut-and-paste job, as if it's just one of many > opinions on the report. > > Perhaps the news broke too late last night for UK > papers to include a > full story Not really true. I sent all the news people I could think of, an e-mail forwarding "that e-mail" about 15 minutes after it hit my inbox. That was Wednesday. Alun __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk