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June 29, 2010
John Pilger: There Is a War on Journalism
It’s been a week since Rolling Stone published its article on General Stanley McChrystal that eventually led to him being fired by President Obama. Since the article came out, Rolling Stone and the reporter who broke the story, Michael Hastings, have come under attack in the mainstream media for violating the so-called “ground rules” of journalism. But the investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger says Hastings was simply doing what all true journalists need to do.
John Pilger, award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. He began his career in journalism nearly half a century ago and has written close to a dozen books and made over fifty documentaries. He lives in London but is in the United States working on a forthcoming documentary about what he calls “the war on the media.” It’s called The War You Don’t See.
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John Pilger: There Is a War on Journalism
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See also:
Lara Logan, You Suck — RollingStone.com
From the archives:
Dennis Kucinich: We are Losing our Nation to Lies about the Necessity of War
Where Have all the Peaceniks Gone? by Cindy Sheehan
Jeremy Scahill: Minerals, WikiLeaks, and Blackwater for Sale
Robert McChesney & John Nichols: The Death and Life of American Journalism
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That’s funny, today I’ve been writing on the same subject. Great article.
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