today’s ” AR-online” again AR-Online recent issues: November 1999 October 1999 September 1999 August 1999 July 1999 June 1999 May 1999 April 1999 March 1999 February 1999 January 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 August 1998 July 1998 Alphabetical index (text) Ou January 17, 2000 Journalists must always fight spin ‘What is it about defence correspondents that they so often come across as mouthpieces for crude military

propaganda?’ By Robert Fisk WHO COULD possibly be surprised by reports that Mark Laity , the BBC’s defence correspondent, has been offered the job of second-in-command to Nato’s spokesman James Shea? “I did not feel that Jamie Shea lied to me at all,” Laity announced. […] WE regret that by letter dated a Ms. Louise Hayman , the head of legal services at The Independent newspaper, requested that this article be removed from this website.

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