Comments on: Our proper job description

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:55:04 +0000

Looks like I stumbled across a John Pilger love-in. For me he has lost it – his last film with Hugo Chavez in it was cringeworthy in that it blatantly ignored Chavez's restriction on free speech in an attempt to say America is bad.

By: Sunili

Sunili — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:27:38 +0000

Trust Pilger to to say exactly what has to be said, and say it so well.

By: Sean the Blogonaut

Sean the Blogonaut — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:25:40 +0000

Hey I thought the real journalism was going to be left to the citizen bloggers

Are there any tertiary courses that focus on new media journalsim. I was thinking that perhaps a way of improving work quality is to have trained part time journalists/bloggers/freelaners located across the country /world.

By: john

john — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:16:56 +0000

Journalists must hold Governments, corporations and authorities responsible for their decisions.

It is hard to call people with power to account.

It is much easier to regard their hypocrisy as a minor vice.

"We are all pragmatists" is how many journalists dismiss broken promises by Governments.

John Pilger doesn't hesitate to present an adequate report of reality in all its tawdriness.

We should wish for more John Pilgers.

John