Toeing the Line: Why the American Press Fails

Jo Thomas

Chapter 5 in The Media and Northern Ireland, 1991, pp 122-135 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It was one of those small Irish houses in Co. Armagh in which the only warmth comes from the hearth, and some of the men get up to leave, quickly and without comment, when a stranger enters the room. It was 1984, and I was looking for information about the deaths of three young, unarmed members of the Irish Republican Army shot by undercover police two years earlier. The initial police account of the circumstances in which the shootings took place had proved to be a tissue of lies, according to subsequent court testimony. But what really happened the night the three men died in a firestorm of bullets was still a mystery. None of the victims survived.

Keywords: Security Force; British Government; British Official; American Press; Irish Republic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11277-7_6

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