John Pilger: Vinnare

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John Pilger, kända undersökande journalist och dokumentärfilmare-maker, is one of only two to have twice won British journalism’s top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US.

In a New Statesman survey of the 50 heroes of our time, Pilger came fourth behind Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. “John Pilger,” wrote Harold Pinter, “unearths, with steely attention facts, the filthy truth. I salute him.”

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He regards eye-witness as the essence of good journalism. He has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war reporter, beginning with the Vietnam war in 1967. He is an impassioned critic of foreign military and economic adventures by Western governments.

“It is too easy,” he says, “for Western journalists to see humanity in terms of its usefulness to ‘our’ interests and to follow government agendas that ordain good and bad tyrants, worthy and unworthy victims and present ‘our’ policies as always benign when the opposite is usually true. It’s the journalist’s job, first of all, to look in the mirror of his own society.”

John Pilger Awards >

Information:

The War on Democracy
This is a 10min introduction of John Pilger’s dokumentär, “The War On Democracy.” The entire video can be seen on Google Video using the following link:
Full Documentary >

“Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.

Wikipedia Entry: “The War on Democracy” >

Postad av Alison Leslie på 27/07/2009. Filed under Ljud & Filmer,Utvalda medier. Du kan följa svar på detta inlägg via RSS 2.0. Svaren är för närvarande stängd, men du kan trackback från din egen webbplats.