Bongs for Baghdad?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1079921,00.html

A search is on for the Baghdad equivalents of Trevor McDonald and Mary Nightingale as ITN prepares to bid for a lucrative deal to run a news channel in Iraq. The coalition authorities have put out to tender a contract worth $10m over two years to re-establish the country's shattered broadcasting network, and the British news organisation is in the running to snap it up.

ITN Consulting, a division of the London news organisation's international operation, has a team in Baghdad assessing the viability of the contract.

The coalition wants to establish a television news channel and a general entertainment channel, and a similar set-up for the Iraqi radio network. It would also be expected to launch a national newspaper.

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The conference heard concerns among news organisations about the US military's attitude to so-called unilateral journalists: reporters who operated outside the official military media operation during the Iraq war.

The death toll was high and the Pentagon has yet to explain how journalists such as ITN's Terry Lloyd and a senior correspondent with al-Jazeera met their deaths apparently as a result of coalition fire.

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2. That's nice of you. You must be a Christian.

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4. Ooh! That's real integillent

Jeepers, creepers, where do they dig up these ... well, y'know.

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5. My god, Rush got out early!

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