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| In March 2000, Marshall and fellow reporter Ian Williams were each awarded £150,000, and ITN won £75,000, from LM Magazine in a High Court libel case against the magazine. Supporters of LM magazine draw attention to the fact that in his judgement, Justice Morland said 'Clearly Ian Williams and Penny Marshall and their TV teams were mistaken in thinking they were not enclosed by the old barbed wire fence, but does it matter?'<ref>'Britain: libel verdict...', World Socialist Web Site, http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/mar2000/livm-m25.shtml</ref> However, an examination of the substance of this case by a professor of cultural and political geography at Durham University argues that the key claims made by Deichmann and LM are "erroneous and flawed". | In March 2000, Marshall and fellow reporter Ian Williams were each awarded £150,000, and ITN won £75,000, from LM Magazine in a High Court libel case against the magazine. Supporters of LM magazine draw attention to the fact that in his judgement, Justice Morland said 'Clearly Ian Williams and Penny Marshall and their TV teams were mistaken in thinking they were not enclosed by the old barbed wire fence, but does it matter?'<ref>'Britain: libel verdict...', World Socialist Web Site, http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/mar2000/livm-m25.shtml</ref> However, an examination of the substance of this case by a professor of cultural and political geography at Durham University argues that the key claims made by Deichmann and LM are "erroneous and flawed". | ||
| There are videos on www.youtube.com called "Hoax of the Bosnian Serb Death Camp", parts 1, 2, and 3 that clearly show that the ITN pictures were faked. | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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Penny Marshall is a British journalist.
She is a graduate of the London School of Economics where she was active as a student journalist. Marshall established herself as a television news foreign correspondent during the 1980s and 90s, when she was based in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This work won awards, including an RTS, an EMMY, and a BAFTA.
She is now a regular presenter and writer for BBC Radio 4. She is also a Visiting Professor of Journalism at City University, London. She remains a Specialist Correspondent for ITN's ITV News at Ten, for whom she has continued to cover major stories as a freelance contributor.
Omarska
In the summer of 1992 Marshall, together with Channel 4 News' Ian Williams, were the first television journalists to uncover the Serb-run detention camps in Bosnia. Ed Vulliamy of the Guardian was also with the ITN teams. Their subsequent reports and pictures, shown throughout the world, generated an international outcry. The TV report won the International News Award for 1992 at the Royal Television Society TV Journalism Awards.
Penny Marshall has received Gold and Silver Medals at the Annual Film & Television Festival of New York, and joint top prize - with Ian Williams - in the News and Actuality category from BAFTA. They also received a special award from Broadcast Magazine. In addition they jointly won an Emmy, one of America's top television awards, for Outstanding Investigative Journalism at that year's News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
Fraud accusations
LM Magazine, formerly Living Marxism, in an article by Thomas Deichmann, claimed that the video tapes, which have brought international recognition to Marshall and Williams, were fraudulent. The article specifically said: "There was no barbed wire fence surrounding Trnopolje camp. It was not a prison, and certainly not a 'concentration camp', but a collection centre for refugees, many of whom went there seeking safety and could leave again if they wished. The barbed wire in the picture is not around the Bosnian Muslims; it is around the cameraman and the journalists." In a German television programme 'Kozarac - Ethnically Cleansed', broadcast on 11 October 1993, Marshall told German movie producer Monika Gras about the impact of the Trnopolje picture: 'That picture of that barbed wire and these emaciated men made alarm bells ring across the whole of Europe. I believe that the report would not have caused such a reaction had it been transmitted without that picture, although the facts would have been the same.' Marshall said that the Bosnian Serbs did not know how to deal with the Western press: 'It was a PR mistake in the Bosnian Serbs' terms.' She did not mention her team making any mistakes in their presentation of the Trnopolje story.
In March 2000, Marshall and fellow reporter Ian Williams were each awarded £150,000, and ITN won £75,000, from LM Magazine in a High Court libel case against the magazine. Supporters of LM magazine draw attention to the fact that in his judgement, Justice Morland said 'Clearly Ian Williams and Penny Marshall and their TV teams were mistaken in thinking they were not enclosed by the old barbed wire fence, but does it matter?' However, an examination of the substance of this case by a professor of cultural and political geography at Durham University argues that the key claims made by Deichmann and LM are "erroneous and flawed".
References
- 'Britain: libel verdict...', World Socialist Web Site, http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/mar2000/livm-m25.shtml
External links
- Britain: libel verdict vs. exposé of Bosnia War propaganda bankrupts independent journal, World Socialist website, March 25, 2000
- Time Magazine Photo of the camp, with link to footage of Marshall conducting interviews there
- We did not fool the world: Richard Tait defends ITN against the charge that it is a giant bullying a dwarf, The Spectator, May 24, 1997