Charile Brooker's Newswipe

Please do make an effort to watch tonight's episode of Charile Brooker's Newswipe. It has an excellent analysis on how the media covered the G20 demo's and distorted the news to sensationalise what was in main a peaceful demonstration.

The program also showed this picture, which I had not seen before:



(Picture taken from Earth First website)

Watch Newswipe at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jwcb3/Newswipe_Episode_4

Assault on Ian Tomlinson

The Guardian website today has a video showing damning evidence of the police attack on Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests which resulted in his death.

Details at http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2009/apr/07/g20-police-assault-video