"Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as functionaires, functionaries, not journalists." ~ John Pilger
"It's only when journalists understand the role they play in this propaganda, it's only when they realize they can't be both independent, honest journalists and agents of power, that things will begin to change." ~ John Pilger
"If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do." ~ John Pilger
"The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food." ~ John Pilger
"It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it." ~ John Pilger
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John Pilger quotes William Blum interviewing extreme right wing psychopath William Kristol
War by media and the triumph of propaganda
5 December 2014
http://te.legra.ph/War-by-media-and-the-triumph-of-propaganda-12-02
5 December 2014
http://te.legra.ph/War-by-media-and-the-triumph-of-propaganda-12-02
Telegraph
War by media and the triumph of propaganda
War by media and the triumph of propaganda 5 December 2014 Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the…