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February 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “I wish I didn’t feel quite so queasy about the disappearance from UK television sets of Press TV,” Peter Preston wrote in an article on The Guardian on Sunday, adding that the news channel was “a voice out there … a part of the spectrum.”
Banning Press TV “on bureaucratic grounds looks a mite self-serving,” Preston, who is an author and a former editor of the The Guardian , added.
The columnist went on to criticize The Royal Television Society, Britain’s leading forum for television and related media, for not protesting Ofcom’s mistreatment of Press TV.
Ofcom undertook the questionable move of revoking Press TV’s broadcasting license and removing it from the Sky platform on January 20, under the pretext that the channel had breached its broadcasting code.
Ofcom also hit Press TV with a fine of 100 thousand pounds. The British media regulator stepped up pressure on Press TV after the news channel covered British police crackdowns on anti-austerity protesters in London and other British cities.
Ofcom is said to have close ties to Britain’s royal family. Cables released by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks show that Press TV’s programs on the royal wedding, which many in the country described as extravagant, angered the royal family.
Many observers have also noted that the British government’s hostile campaign against Press TV has its roots in the channel’s extensive and transparent coverage of the role that the British government played in the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Press TV has extensively given coverage to Britain’s support for autocratic Persian Gulf monarchies and the legitimacy it gives to the dictatorial regimes in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Preston concluded by asking, “And the argument that this isn’t censorship because you still get it on your laptop is pretty daft. Why, then, go out and make a redundant gesture in the first place?”
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