Independent Media? What A Joke UK government secretly funded Reuters in 1960s, 1970s

By Joe Concha
 

The government used the BBC to conceal funding in making payments to the international news group.

"We are now in a position to conclude an agreement providing discreet Government support for Reuters services in the Middle East and Latin America," reads a 1969 redacted secret British government document entitled "Funding of Reuters by HMG," or Her Majesty's Government.

 

The document was declassified last year. 

"HMG's interests should be well served by the new arrangement," it continues. 

 

A Reuters spokesperson said in a statement on Monday that it was common for news organizations to receive some form of state subsidy at the time. 

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