RIP John Pilger
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Any proof of this?
Why wouldn't he be? both of them challenged the status quo, and fought against injustice and helped expose lies and corruption, what's not to like?. Got more respect for people like Corbyn and Pilger than ignorant, subservient idiots and even worse, those that know the truth but choose to bury their heads in the sand and pretend its not happening.Of course you are Jeremy
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Maravilla
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Was undoubtedly a brilliant reporter in his early career, and think most sensible people would agree that several US governments have got off very lightly for their roles in various conflicts post-Vietnam, but he became a complete apologist for the likes of Xi, Putin and Assad to name a few in latter life.
Monty Pigeon
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The Times obit pulls no punches.
It also goes into depth about the Sunee episode.
In 1982, the crusading journalist John Pilger wrote in the Daily Mirror about how in Bangkok, he had purchased Sunee, an eight-year-old illiterate village girl for £85. Over three pages, Pilger declared that this “slave” was merely one of an estimated 200,000 children “forced into hard labour in sweatshop factories or as domestics and prostitutes”.
It was a story that grabbed international attention, especially because it possessed the perfect ending. After heading back to what was described as her village in northeast Thailand, Pilger and his photographer miraculously discovered Sunee’s mother and photographed the tearful reunion, while a visibly moved Pilger looked on and pledged money for Sunee’s education.
Unfortunately for Pilger, a follow-up by a more sceptical journalist discovered that Sunee was actually attending primary school in Bangkok and that the entire story was fabricated by an enterprising taxi driver who had been hired by Pilger to find a genuine slave girl but had failed to do so. Instead, the driver bribed a mother and daughter living in Bangkok to play the part.
When Auberon Waugh commented on this in an article in The Spectator, Pilger sued them for questioning his story and, as a result, no London newspapers immediately followed up on the hoax. This prompted Waugh to pursue Pilger for the bias of his reporting and ultimately invent a new verb — Pilgerise. It was defined as: “To present information in a sensationalist manner to reach a foregone conclusion; using emotive language to make a false political point; treating a subject emotionally with generous disregard for inconvenient detail; or making a pompous judgment on wrong premises”. It was later withdrawn from The Oxford English Dictionary of New Words, after legal action by Pilger.
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It also goes into depth about the Sunee episode.
In 1982, the crusading journalist John Pilger wrote in the Daily Mirror about how in Bangkok, he had purchased Sunee, an eight-year-old illiterate village girl for £85. Over three pages, Pilger declared that this “slave” was merely one of an estimated 200,000 children “forced into hard labour in sweatshop factories or as domestics and prostitutes”.
It was a story that grabbed international attention, especially because it possessed the perfect ending. After heading back to what was described as her village in northeast Thailand, Pilger and his photographer miraculously discovered Sunee’s mother and photographed the tearful reunion, while a visibly moved Pilger looked on and pledged money for Sunee’s education.
Unfortunately for Pilger, a follow-up by a more sceptical journalist discovered that Sunee was actually attending primary school in Bangkok and that the entire story was fabricated by an enterprising taxi driver who had been hired by Pilger to find a genuine slave girl but had failed to do so. Instead, the driver bribed a mother and daughter living in Bangkok to play the part.
When Auberon Waugh commented on this in an article in The Spectator, Pilger sued them for questioning his story and, as a result, no London newspapers immediately followed up on the hoax. This prompted Waugh to pursue Pilger for the bias of his reporting and ultimately invent a new verb — Pilgerise. It was defined as: “To present information in a sensationalist manner to reach a foregone conclusion; using emotive language to make a false political point; treating a subject emotionally with generous disregard for inconvenient detail; or making a pompous judgment on wrong premises”. It was later withdrawn from The Oxford English Dictionary of New Words, after legal action by Pilger.
Steeeeed
Winger
He definitely will be sad. Both peas in the same pod.
smoker
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Harry Gates
Midfield
First comment on YouTube gives you a history from his grandson.
oddbod
Winger
the ukrainians were a tad naughty during the second world war!not sure of the big fan bit as i always his analysis was razor sharp!
Died 1997, that would make him 62 ish, never got to retirement, says everything about how life used to be, and to a degree still is, We should never forget where we came from, and not make the mistake of thinking those days are behind us.
Thanks, that would've made him around 62 then, when he died
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