FAKE Investigative Journalists? Meirion Jones, Iain Overton

[TonyGosling]

previous headline
'7/7 has been solved: 'Investigative Journalist' Iain Overton'

No 7/7 investigation needed - journalism chief Iain Overton

I've recently had an enlightening email correspondance with Iain Overton who describes himself as an investigative journalist. Editor-in-chief in fact of a prestigious new London organisation calling itself the Bureau Of Investigative Journalism.

[Frazzel]

hi tony, he seems to ignore the fact that many 7/7 survivors want a new independent enquiry and are not satisfied with the OCT. has he even bothered to read Nafeez Ahmeds book.
send me his email address and i will willingly send him a very reasoned and reasonable email myself.

[TonyGosling]

Fake Investigative Journalist Iain Overton's picture has disappeared
Here is another



And here is another of that ilk - Martyn Gregory


Both of course much loved and favoured by the BBC

[nrmis]

Hmmm, publishing names along with pictures now are we? How interesting!

If only we could do that with the actual perpertrators of this terrorist atrocity.

[Andrew.]

[nrmis]

Thank you Andrew, very well put. I sometimes get a little dis-heartened to realize that this is the level we're at though.

[TonyGosling]

These journalistic 'gatekeepers' such as Aaronovich, Rentoul, Monbiot etc. are absolutely in the frame here potentially covering up for treason, mass murder etc.

[TonyGosling]

Here's some of Iain's work - good stuff shame about 7/7

http://www.iraqwarlogs.com
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/08/10/most-complete-picture- yet-of-cia-drone-strikes/

[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

Iain Overton in hot water
But Lord McAlpine was set up as a Straw Man and looks like Iain & the BBC fell for it.
Abused children forgotten again

Role in making false accusations of child abuse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Overton#Role_in_making_false_accusat ions_of_child_abuse
On 2 November 2012, Overton alleged on Twitter that a joint report by the Bureau and the BBC, to be broadcast on the BBC programme 'Newsnight', had unmasked a senior Conservative politician as a paedophile who had sexually abused children in the North Wales child abuse scandal. His Tweet read, "If all goes well, we've got a Newsnight out tonight about a very senior political figure who is a paedophile." [9]The Newsnight broadcast, made later that day, made such an allegation against an un-named politician, who was widely identified on the internet as the former Conservative Party Treasurer Lord McAlpine.[10] Lord McAlpine issued a statement strongly denying the accusations. [11]This allegation was subsequently admitted by the BBC to be false.[12]

The broadcasting of the false claim led to the resignation of George Entwistle as Director-General of the BBC on 10 November 2012.[13] Lord Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust, described the report as “unacceptable shoddy journalism”.[14] Before his resignation, Entwistle announced that the BBC had suspended all investigations undertaken with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. [15]

Overton withdrew his original Tweet but did not use his Twitter feed to apologise for it or to correct the false information it had contained. [16] He was severely criticised on Twitter by a number of other journalists for his conduct in this affair, including the former Newsnight editor Michael Crick and the Guardian columnist Deborah Orr.[17] Orr tweeted 'And @iainoverton, who did the "teaser tweet" about the #newsnight report is just carrying on as if nothing's happened.'[18]

[TonyGosling]

Iain Overton resigned as BIJ chief today

Why Iain Overton chose to resign from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/nov/12/investigative-j ournalism-newsnight

[TonyGosling]

New editor
Same old faux investigative journalistic guff!

Today I put in an interview request asking to help publicise their campaigns to Meirion Jones who's the new editor. Prompt reply.


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