War and the media
Kayte Fairfax interviews renowned radical journalist and maker of over 50 films John Pilger. http://visionon.tv/plugandplay Get talking about radical media: http://live.rebelliousmediaconference.org
John Pilger and others at Rebellious Media Conference
A panel featuring John Pilger at the Rebellious Media Conference in London on the 8th October 2011. Great session.
War and the Media
Saturday 8 October
4.15–5.45pm Level 1 Rooms
How are the crimes of war reported and justified by the mainstream media when they're our crimes? How are audiences views' shaped by this coverage, and what can we do about it? And what does the declassified record tell us about elite attitudes towards truth and the general
public?
Mark Curtis is the author of, among other books, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam (2010).
Greg Philo is director of the Glasgow Media Group and co-author (with Mike Berry) of, among other books, More Bad News from Israel.
John Pilger is a renowned journalist,whose latest film is The War You Don't See (2010).
War and the media
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"The War You Don't See" has the great journalistic coup of journalists flagellating themselves over their naivety over WMD claims. But is there any evidence they have learnt their lesson? I would guess not, because that would require them changing their whole view of how the world works and the job of their own profession....
Richard Hering
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