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Notes
Notes
1 Graham Mytton and Carol Forrester, Audiences for international radio broadcasts, European Journal of Communication, 3(4) (1998), 457–481, 458.
2 Donald Read, The Power of News: the history of Reuters (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992), 292.
3 Ibid.
4 Evening Standard, 22 May 1978.
5 Graham Mytton, BBC External Services and the Shaba Story, 26 May 1978.
6 It was very much in President Mobutu's interest to bring about the involvement of western forces, which in rescuing the beleaguered white expatriates would also help put down the rebellion and restore his lost hegemony in the province. There is little doubt that western media coverage, including that of the BBC, and the BBC may have been the major international influence, helped this to be the outcome, a positive achievement for the dictator but no doubt a prolongation of his appalling regime.
7 The BBC Yearbook 1933 (London, BBC, 1933), 259.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 See Peter Partner, Arab Voices; the BBC Arabic Service 1938–1988 (London, BBC, 1988).
11 BBC World Service 1992–1993 Plan, 3.
12 BBC World Service Annual Review, 3.
13 In 1985, a month after Mrs Thatcher declared that terrorists should be starved of the ‘oxygen of publicity’, she learned that a senior Republican paramilitary had been interviewed for a forthcoming BBC Real Lives documentary, At the Edge of the Union. Home Secretary Leon Brittan stated that transmission of the programme would be against the national interest and, more significantly, he wrote to the Chairman, Stuart Young, asking the BBC to cancel the broadcast. The Governors called an emergency meeting and, against the advice of senior BBC executives (acting in place of Director-General Alasdair Milne who was on holiday), decided to view the programme. They ruled that it could not go out. This was interpreted inside and outside the BBC as government censorship, and the Governors found themselves at the centre of a furious storm. Staff went on strike for a day in protest, and the Assistant Director-General went into print saying the Governors were to the BBC what the iceberg was to the Titanic.