He tried to murder general edwin walker because walker had given speeches attacking communism. So Lee Harvey Oswald never hid his politics. Not for a moment. He talked incessantly about communism to anyone who would listen. And yet Many Americans never really understood what Lee Harvey Oswald believed and they didnt understand it because news outlets didnt tell them. Instead, almost immediately, the media began spinning a different story. President kennedy, they suggested, had been murdered by conservatives, possibly by conservatism itself, by hate, as they often put it. The explanation was never very precise but the idea was the always same. Right wingers killed kennedy. The soviet union, naturally a suspect in this crime, was happy to agree with the assessment. As a soviet spokesman put it, moral responsibility for the Kennedy Assassination lay squarely with Barry Goldwater and other extremists on the right. In the end, the coordinated lying paid off. A year later, senator Barry Gold
bakhmut in ukraine. and the reason this matters, jake, is because the fight for bakhmut, as has become the case with much of the war in ukraine, has become a war of attrition that military and intelligence officials increasingly say is really likely to turn on access to artillery ammunition, which side is able to sustain its supply of artillery ammunition the longest. one senior western intelligence official that i spoke to earlier today said in bakhmut alone, the two sides are spending up to multiple thousands of rounds of ammunition a day, which is just staggering. so what north korea is doing here is really helping wagner, and by extension the russian side, perpetuate this fight in bakhmut that our sources say has left this part of ukraine looking like they re done. will the weapons and ammunition from north korea make a difference in ukraine? not necessarily from a broader strategic perspective. the fight in bakhmut specifically is not seen, even if russia is able to
we re watching all of it very closely as you might imagine. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus . doctors have been saying they are keeping queen elizabeth medically comfortable at balmoral castle in scotland. buckingham palace says they re concerned for her health. yesterday the queen canceled a virtual meeting with her private counsel and she was also described as looking frail at an event earlier this week. in fact, many people since that event have talked about how frail she looked. a lot of loss of weight. they were concerned and not necessarily doctors. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live for us in london. greg with the latest. it s safe to say the u.k., perhaps many around the world, are holding its breath maybe saying a few prayers this amongst the troubling news about the health of queen elizabeth ii, the 96-year-old sovereign of this country. we got world from the royal household following further evaluation by doctors there
and are there now and some who were also in russia. deborah haynes is sky news defence and security editor. nic robertson is international diplomatic editor at cnn, we have a freelance journalist and so too is olga tokariuk. and francis scarr is here from bbc monitoring. welcome to you all and thank you so much for coming on the media show. olga, if we just start with you, where are you and what is the atmosphere like in ukraine today? you ve been tweeting about our prime minister, boris johnson s visit to kyiv. i know that. yeah, well, hi, everyone. and thank you for having me on this show. i m currently in western ukraine in the town of chernitsi. and i apologise for the background because i m speaking to you from a basement because we ve had already four raid alerts today. and since i m working from home, ijust decided to stay in the basement for the show so that, you know, i don t get interrupted by another air raid alert. radio viewers won t see that, but our tv viewers
fuelled recent antagonism between the balkan neighbours. serbia has refused to recognise identity cards issued by kosovo. kosovo has an ethnic albanian majority and has declared independence from serbia. now on bbc news, the media show. hello. today, ukrainians should be celebrating 31 years of independence from soviet rule. instead, there s a grimmer anniversary. it s exactly six months since the start of the war. i want to look back at the journalism over those months. what does the reporting taught us about the war? and what has the war taught us about the media? i m joined byjournalists who ve been in ukraine and are there now and some who were also in russia. deborah haynes is sky news defence and security editor. nic robertson is international diplomatic editor at cnn, we have a freelance journalist and so too is 0lga tokariuk. and francis scarr is here from bbc monitoring. welcome to you all and thank you so much for coming on the media show. 0lga, if we just start wit