UK Bans Press TV

Licence revoked by media regulator

BBC: Iranian news network Press TV has had its licence revoked by the media regulator Ofcom and will no longer be allowed to broadcast in the UK. Ofcom said the state broadcaster's English language outlet had breached several broadcasting licence rules over editorial control of the channel. Press TV has also failed to pay a £100,000 fine imposed last year. The channel called the decision "a clear example of censorship". It will be removed from Sky on 20 January. The £100,000 fine was imposed last year after the network broadcast an interview with imprisoned Newsweek and Channel 4 journalist Maziar Bahari, which the Ofcom said had been conducted under duress >>>

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G. Rahmanian

"I, for one, like to know what the other side thinks."

by G. Rahmanian on Fri Jan 20, 2012 05:47 PM PST

If after thirty-three years of totalitarian rule by the mullahs and their armed goons you are still wondering "what the other side thinks," then, I'm afraid to say, it is almost too late (You see! I don't say impossible.) to learn now that the regime's downfall is at hand!

Regime's every defeat is a victory for Iranians. Every time the regime loses, it is a win for Iranians.


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vildemose

Nobody does

by vildemose on Fri Jan 20, 2012 05:21 PM PST

Nobody does whiney/faux indignation better than regime's cronies and sympathizers who are fearful of losing their livelihood if the regime goes down.

 A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.


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IranFirst

Islamofascist mouthpiece wants freedom to kill freedom of Speech

by IranFirst on Fri Jan 20, 2012 05:15 PM PST

PressTV (Islamofascist proganda mouthpiece) uses freedom of speech to KILL freedom of speech.

Free speech is not the freedom to disrupt and shout down, but to speak
as well as to listen. Try posting on PressTV any comments that terrorist IRI does not like. The jihad on free speech is to invoke freedom of
speech to kill freedom of speech for everyone but the jihadis

If someone really misses these terrorist enablers, they can look up IRI site of PressTV (or any other approved-by-IRI terrorist site) in Iran


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Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

I agree Rea

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Fri Jan 20, 2012 04:57 PM PST

 

I want to hear all propaganda not just BBC or Murdoch. No surprise UK behave this way: they created Mullahs; and act the same way. 


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MeyBokhor_Manbarbesuzan

And this is the same office that allows Murdoch's...

by MeyBokhor_Manbarbesuzan on Fri Jan 20, 2012 04:46 PM PST

And this is the same office that allows Murdoch's sewage factories to continue broadcasting their venom despite extensive phone hacking of a wide section of the British public.


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Rea

Leave PressTV alone

by Rea on Fri Jan 20, 2012 04:11 PM PST

I, for one, like to know what the other side thinks.

Even their offshoot, irib.ir, is welcome. In fact, they are quite useful. Particularly when fighting those trying to convince you that Ahme is Kennedy resuscitated.


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Anonymous Observer

About time!!

by Anonymous Observer on Fri Jan 20, 2012 02:55 PM PST

those who deprive their subject of freedom of expression do not deserve to be the beneficiaries of free speech. 


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Disenchanted

Brits taking a page from IRI's Ershad book!

by Disenchanted on Fri Jan 20, 2012 01:14 PM PST

          Muzzling voices is never good no matter what is the excuse! 

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Roozbeh_Gilani

بفرما، نگفتم نذار از در و دیوار باغ مردم برن بالا؟

Roozbeh_Gilani
Fri Jan 20, 2012 01:12 PM PST

 این پرس تی‌ وی که به درک. بد بختیت اینه که حالا زیر تمبونی و پستون بند ضعیفه حج خانوم  رو یکی‌ از بچه‌های اطلاعاتی‌ با پاسپورت انگلیسی باید بخره از "مارکس & اسپنسر" و برات بفرسته، به جای اینکه خودت ویزا بگیری بری لندن، دو سه‌ هفته حال کنی‌، معالجه کنی‌ و از این حرفا...


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