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muriel_volestrangler

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4. Channel 4 has done a 'fact check' on this:

Fri Dec 15, 2017, 10:34 AM

Dec 2017

We used Factiva, a paid-for media archive, and searched for mentions of the prize in the UK media since it was established in 1992.

Leaving the search options as wide as possible (“all dates” and “all sources”), we can only find two mentions of the prize in UK newspapers.

One is a Sunday Times story from 1994 about activists trying to hand over the award to the Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu.

The other is a Guardian article from 2013 about a former winner – the Irish president Michael D Higgins.

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-has-the-media-ignored-good-news-about-jeremy-corbyn

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Don't want to gripe or threadcrap from the off, Denzil_DC Dec 2017 #1

Absolutely. sandensea Dec 2017 #2

I suspect that he's doing as much as he can... T_i_B Dec 2017 #3

Channel 4 has done a 'fact check' on this: muriel_volestrangler Dec 2017 #4

"Amid" in any headline has become one of my favourite media weasel words. Denzil_DC Dec 2017 #5