Spectator: How independent is The Independent?

Blog Bot · 18-10-2007, 09:30 PM

With wearying predictability The Independent splashes today on “10 Myths about the EU Treaty” - and prints a rebuttal of those eurosceptic “myths” on page three.
They looked curiously familiar to me. And then I figured out why. The piece is an almost word-for-word reprint of a Foreign Office briefing note – but without any attribution that that is the source.
Have a look at this thing, circulated by the FCO which Open Europe obtained a copy of.

And then read the Indie piece. They are almost exactly the same. (Rather like the relationship between the “new” treaty

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18-10-2007, 09:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
Blog Bot Uber Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 3,039	Spectator: How independent is The Independent? With wearying predictability The Independent splashes today on “10 Myths about the EU Treaty” - and prints a rebuttal of those eurosceptic “myths” on page three. They looked curiously familiar to me. And then I figured out why. The piece is an almost word-for-word reprint of a Foreign Office briefing note – but without any attribution that that is the source. Have a look at this thing, circulated by the FCO which Open Europe obtained a copy of. And then read the Indie piece. They are almost exactly the same. (Rather like the relationship between the “new” treaty More...

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