Right on Jon

Media Workers against the war have posted a transcript with an interview with Jon Snow that went out on Radio 4's Inside Stories on monday. Snow was not happy about the media's collusion with the propaganda stunt of Prince Harry being sent to Afghanistan.

This was propaganda, this was not journalism, this was not ferreting about to get at the truth, this was doing somebody else’s bidding, this was the picture that the Ministry of Defence and others wanted put across the front pages of the newspapers, this was a hole in one for the Palace, the military authorities and Prince Harry, there was no journalism involved at all, not one element of it.