Round-up: Assignment, Ethiopia and Bob Geldof
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An Assignment documentary into the use of aid money in Ethiopia during the 1980s has provoked much debate across the world's media. We discussed the programme on this week's episode of Over To You - which you can listen to again here.
Below is a round-up of the key coverage surrounding the story so you can have the full picture:
- Article: Read . [3 March]
- Audio: Listen again to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service Africa Editor Martin Plaut's original programme, Aid for Arms in Ethiopia, or (mp3, 11MB). [4 March]
- Article: The Independent newspaper (UK) for "disgracefully poor reporting" which "relied on dubious sources and rumour". [6 March]
- Blog: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service News and Current Affairs editor Andrew Whitehead, introduced by Director of Global News Peter Horrocks, writes on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News Editors Blog.Ìý[6 March]
- Video: Geldof also . [7 March]
- Audio: to provide proof that the claims in the report are correct. [7 March]
- Comment: Former ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ journalist Rageh Omaar , wondering "why the strong and blanket reaction without a hint of wanting to know more?". [8 March]
- Comment: Omaar's piece , asking: "Where were all the dead people then? If no one was getting food, why was nobody dying? That would have been one of the first questions I'd have asked." [9 March]
- Article: In the Independent, Geldof , as well Andrew Whitehead and Martin Plaut. [10 March]
- Audio: Whitehead appears on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4's Media Show to stress that the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ is standing by its story. Listen again online, or (mp3, 14MB). [10 March]
- Comment: In an editorial, the Daily Mail (UK) - adding that the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ "deserves praise for this piece of journalism". [11 March]
- Comment: Alasdair Palmer [13 March]
- Comment: Former editor of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4's Today programme Rod Liddle writes in The Times, . [14 March]
- Comment: An opinion column in the Ethiopian Review . [15 March]
- Comment: In the Daily Mail (UK), Richard Dowden, author of Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles, . [15 March]
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