Press TV could be back on the UK airwaves, Professor Stewart Purvis who was on the OFCOM board that made the decision to take the Iranian-owned broadcaster off air said today in an exclusiveTemplate interview.
Prof Purvis said Press TV had not been able to meet European standards and regulations, highlighting the interview broadcast with a man who later said he had been under duress from the Iranian authorities as an example of this.
He did not however rule out a time when OFCOM and Press TV could meet and iron out the problems, that mean that viewers can only see the channel on the deregulated web.
Professor Stewart Purvis, former OFCOM board member explains why the watchdog took Iranian owned Press TV off the airwaves in the United Kingdom.
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George Galloway’s stunning victory at Bradford West has been treated with awe and adulation by his supporters and dismay and disgust by those who are not.
It is the nature of the man that he has polarised opinion in this way.
For on one hand, there is the George Galloway who champions causes such as the Mariam appeal that highlighted the devastating effect a decade-long sanctions were having on the children of Iraq, whilst on the other, there are many who are left wondering exactly why he is doing this.
One subscriber has asked me, what my impressions of him have been.
So, here goes.
The first time I met George Galloway, he was the Labour MP for Glasgow Kelvin, a maverick but highly confident about his position within New Labour.
He was so confident that he attempted to launch a newspaper aimed at the Asian community, for which I worked.
In one interview he gave me…
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Cathy Newman Channel Four presenter claimed she was ushered out of a UK mosque – unfortunately for her there was a CCTV camera that showed what really happened. The South London Mosque in Streatham which was at the centre of the media storm generated by Newman’s allegations accepted Channel Four’s apology – but also said the whole debate was surrounded in a ‘fog of Islamophobia.’
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