John Pilger

[ichkeria]

Is no more.

I think it'd be fair to say that his career peaked early with his work on Cambodia. Who know maybe that's what turned him into the embittered anti-western fraud he undoubtedly was.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-67853392
 

"With the absence of a Russian "invasion" a bitter disappointment to its most avid promoters in London, this expose of Operation Orbital, the British army's secretive role in Ukraine, is recommended."

Three days later Putin's tanks invaded. One of his more recent priceless pieces of "analysis"

 

 

[ynnafymmi]

Was he pro-Putin or anti-Putin,was he pro-Hamas terrorists or was he against the Hamas terrorists?Anyone know?

[THECORBYLOON]

You clearly have no idea but you're prepared to have a go at him if required?

[ynnafymmi]

Aye,sure am.

[ichkeria]

He is on record as saying that Putin was the only European leader who had ever stood up to fascism or words to that effect.

[ynnafymmi]

Sarcasm at its finest Ichy?

[ichkeria]

He also did a notoriously one sided "documentary" "Palestine is still the issue" for ITV. He saw it as his duty to counterbalance what he saw as pro-Israeli  western bias, but this mission just turned him into another polemical propagandist. The best journalists give both sides: Pilger never attempted that and much of his reportage suffered for it.

[ichkeria]

"Sarcasm at its finest Ichy?"

Well I'd call it sheer idiocy myself but the naked emperor of "causes" will still be cheering his fine robes ... Roger Waters for one. Just look at the people weeping and wailing at his passing ...

[ynnafymmi]

I take it he lived in one of his socialist paradises such as Cuba or Venezuela or Russia or China or North Korea?He wouldnt live amongst us reactionary fascists in the West would he?

[Peter Pedant]

I remember his as a standard Marxist liberal Beeb hack, coming out with the usual

good old days of Marxist liberation will solve everything, and if the liberation doesnt work, there is still doctrinaire Marxism....

it is what we paid our licence fee for innit?

[Tilly2]

He wrote for the Daily Mirror when it was a decent paper. He was good in his day.

[ichkeria]

I think he lived mostly in the UK latterly. 
He also defended Slobodan Milisevic, claiming he opposed ethnic cleaning and tried to get Karadzic and co to "stop it".

[Peter Pedant]

whereas Nik Gowing also keen to make sure we were card carrying maexists - -  made it

https://www.nikgowing.com/about-1/#:~:text=In%202014%20Nik%20was%20appointed,%E2%80%9CThinking%20the%20Unthinkable%E2%80%9D%20research.

Sue Lloyd Roberts  died around ten years ago

[ynnafymmi]

@18.59."I think he lived mostly in the UK latterly".So he lived in an Islamist country latterly then Ichy.

[ToraToraTora]

gawd can't even do crossword clues now.

[ynnafymmi]

You sure you are on the right page 3T?

[Peter Pedant]

is he um ever on the right page ?

any way midnight has just gone - - happy new year

[ynnafymmi]

Happy New Year to you also Peter and to all my friends on AB.

[ichkeria]

"He wrote for the Daily Mirror when it was a decent paper. He was good in his day"

It was the Daily Mirror that unwittingly fell for his fake story about buying a young girl in Thailand in 1982 inspiring a new word in the OED: to "Pilger" - until he threatened to sue them. Revolting sanctimonious fraud he was