BBC Correspondent - 'War Spin': Jessica Lynch 'Rescue' Story Was A Hoax (2003)

BBC documentary exposes Pentagon lies: The staged rescue of Private Jessica Lynch
By Julie Hyland, 23 May 2003
Link: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/05/jess-m23.html

A BBC Correspondent documentary, “War Spin” broadcast in Britain on Sunday 18 May, presented a devastating account of how US and British government and military forces set out to mislead and misinform the public during their war against Iraq—aided by hundreds of compliant “embedded” journalists.

Presented by BBC war correspondent John Kampfner the documentary was subtitled Saving Private Jessica: Fact or fiction? because it focused initially on how the widely circulated account of the US navy seals rescue of Private Jessica Lynch owed more to Hollywood myth making than reality.