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"Although journalism was always a loose extension of establishment power, something has changed in recent years."
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John Pilger’s foreword to Propaganda Blitz outlines how “fearful ‘democracies’ regress behind a media facade of narcissistic spectacle”. Image: Media Lens
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By John Pilger
Foreword to Propaganda Blitz published today.*
Foreword to Propaganda Blitz published today.*
The death of Robert Parry earlier this year felt like a farewell to the age of the reporter. Parry was “a trailblazer for independent journalism”, wrote Seymour Hersh, with whom he shared much in common.
Hersh revealed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the secret bombing of Cambodia, Parry exposed Iran-Contra, a drugs and gun-running conspiracy that led to the White House. In 2016, they separately produced compelling evidence that the Assad government in Syria had not used chemical weapons. They were not forgiven.
