Dale Reynolds in London for RadioLeft.com

 

The Times of London, owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, leads media reports on the Blair administration's efforts to muzzle The Times and other British newspapers on reporting an alleged phone call between Prime Minister Blair and George W. Bush, in which Blair dissuaded Bush from bombing Al-Jazeera, the free Arab-Muslim news service based in Doha, Qatar. For the full story please go to this link:

 

 

 

The report on the alleged Bush plan to bomb Al-Jazeera was first published on November 22nd by The Daily Mail, another conservative newspaper which many media pundits feel gets Blair's attention more than any other paper.

 

That story can be read in full at

 

 

It is interesting that a Labour Prime Minister, which many might assume to be liberal and progressive in character, has become so close to a conservative or extremist American president that he has earned the dissent and criticism of, of all things, conservative newspapers.

 

We live in interesting times.

 

D.R.