Sunday, July 06, 2003
The state's media
This raises some disturbing questions about state-controlled media . . .
MI6 chief briefed BBC over Iraq arms fears
Kamal Ahmed, political editor
Sunday July 6, 2003
The Observer
The head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, secretly briefed senior BBC executives on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction before the Today programme claimed Number 10 had 'sexed up' part of the evidence.
In a remarkable revelation that goes to the heart of the increasingly bitter row between the Government and the BBC, broadcasting sources have told The Observer that Dearlove suggested that Syria and Iran posed a greater threat to world security than Iraq . . . More . .
Neat new Blog tool
I haven't got an RSS feed for this blog -- it's coming though !! -- but many of my favourite bloggers do. At home, where I'm computing mostly in a Macintosh environment, my preferred tool to read these RSS feeds is NetNewsWire from Ranchero Software. The folks at Ranchero just released an update to NetNewsWire which lets you create blog posts and post them from within NetNewsWire. There is also a NotePad feature within the app although I'm not sure where I'd use that. Any NetNewsWire users find some good reasons/uses for that NotePad app? Let me know, won't you?
A very cool ad
... from Honda, the car company. One version has been cached here. The original version is at Honda's European Web site here . It's billed as the most precise two minutes in television -- and it's hard to argue with that conclusion.
