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The Battle of Orgreave Part One: How the BBC Created Fake News to Rewrite "The Battle of Orgreave".

To be watched together with "The Battle of Orgreave Part Two: How the BBC made Fake News the Main News", which can be accessed by clicking the link:    • The Battle of Orgreave Part Two: How the B...   This is a forensic examination of a documentary crafted by BBC reporter Dan Johnson. It shows how he and his BBC colleagues had used dishonest journalism to create Fake News; and how the BBC then used its power to literally rewrite history as George Orwell had described in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The so-called "Battle of Orgreave" was one of the defining moments of the British coal-miners' strike of 1984-1985. In late May 1984, thousands of striking pickets descended on the coking plant at Orgreave in South Yorkshire, to try and stop lorries delivering coke to the nearby British Steel works at Scunthorpe. The pickets were confronted by thousands of police, who had been bussed in from all over the country. Violence erupted between the two sides on May 29th and continued up to June 18th, the dispute's climax. However, the miners' attempts at breaking the police lines failed, and Margaret Thatcher's Conservative administration went on to defeat the strike. To this day the Conservatives' defeat of the striking miners remains heavily resented by the Left. Provoked by an article published in The Guardian on April 12th 2012, which insinuated that South Yorkshire Police had fabricated witness statements to support improper prosecutions of arrested pickets, six months later on October 22nd the BBC broadcast an "Inside Out" documentary about Orgreave, made by the BBC's regional reporter Dan Johnson. It too suggested that the police had "colluded" to "doctor" and "manipulate" their witness statements, in order to facilitate improper prosecutions of riot against the arrested pickets. In particular, Dan Johnson alleged/implied that: a) the police had instigated the violence, not the miners; b) the police had colluded in their writing of their witness statements; c) the police had lied in their statements; d) the police had conspired to pervert the course of justice. This video examines in detail Dan Johnson's documentary, and the dishonest journalistic methods he used in order to support his list of accusations/insinuations - all of which had also been aired in an article posted on The Guardian's website just 52 minutes prior to its transmission. In particular, Dan Johnson's: a) selection of news footage; b) sequencing of events; c) omission of fact; d) use of juxtaposition; e) failure to resolve the police's and miners' conflicting accounts; and f) use of other such techniques; seen in the context of the actual BBC and ITN TV news reports of May-June 1984. This scrutiny shows Dan Johnson and his BBC "Inside out" team had deliberately set out to misportray the events, in order to bear out the allegations aired in The Guardian article. Watched together with Part Two: "How the BBC made Fake News the Main News", it is shown how, by such means, coupled with the BBC's power in Britain to shape thought, Dan Johnson and his colleagues literally rewrote history, brainwashing those who were unable to remember for themselves the events at Orgreave as they were reported in 1984. One such person is the Labour MP for Orgreave, Sarah Champion, who was only 14 years old at the time, who volunteers that the pickets had actually been protesting peacefully, accompanied by their families. But the reports by ITN and BBC broadcast at the time show it had been bloody carnage, with "rioting" pickets demolishing walls, erecting burning barricades, and pelting the police for hours with a barrage of missiles including house-bricks.