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[yiannisP]

Do you remember this article from the Telegraph regarding EOKA being terrorists for fighting for independence from British Colonial rule?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/pers ... -land.html

There was also a thread started here:
http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.p ... highlight=

Well, the Press Complainst Commission have given a decision regarding my complaint. Don't get your hopes up though as they basically say it is a matter of perspective and it isn't misleading anyone. I have scanned in the letter below

[The Cypriot]

yianni

Very well done for pursuing this and for firing a warning shot against the bows of the Telegraph.

As I think I explained to you before, the PCC is not independent of the press but a self-regulatory body that, in reality, exists to protect newspapers from expensive libel actions.

I think their response over the use of the term "Terrorist" is wishy-washy but entirely par for the course! And their Code is written to enable newspapers to wriggle out of things like this.

[Oracle]

Well done Yianni for bringing the error to their attention ... even if their partisanship fails to acknowledge it as such.

I was waiting for a response from my Lib Dem member of Parliament on this, but it has now turned into a further complaint which I am raising with the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg ... so I have nothing to report as yet. But, this matter is far from closed.

[zan]

Excellent!!! Force the clarification of these terrorists

[polis]

Not a bad decision really. It recognises "terrorist" as "clearly a loaded term - the use and interpretation of which was often based on a particular perspective - and as such open to dispute" as well as the fact that the use of the term is "controversial", "partisan" and "comment [or] conjecture" rather than fact. I think this was well worth Yiannis' trouble filing the complaint.

Now good luck trying to explain Zan what the Press Complaints Commission actually said.

[Oracle]

Absolutely polis ....

"A loaded term" hurled in this day and age, towards a major newspaper, is pretty damning ...

Shame scumbag Turks like Zan cannot appreciate how EOKA fought for Cyprus, and still side with the Colonialists ... which I understand will shortly be the undoing of Turkey .... Kismet!

[Get Real!]

Excellent!!! Force the clarification of these terrorists

The sharmutta is back...

[polis]

Absolutely polis ....

You agree with me?!! Gosh, I'm not sure what I said wrong there.

[Oracle]

Absolutely polis ....

You agree with me?!! Gosh, I'm not sure what I said wrong there.

Erm ... I usually agree with you ... have I not stated before?

Regardless ... I would have definitely let you know if I objected.

[polis]

Absolutely polis ....

You agree with me?!! Gosh, I'm not sure what I said wrong there.

Erm ... I usually agree with you ... have I not stated before?

Regardless ... I would have definitely let you know if I objected.

Oops, I'm really sorry, O. I thought the message came from GR!