John Pilger’s ‘The War You Don’t See’ is a powerful, thought provoking and timely investigation into the Western media’s role in war, tracing the history of ‘embedded’ and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current disasters of epic proportion in Afghanistan and Iraq. As propaganda becomes even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an ‘electronic battlefield’ in which journalists and bloggers play a key role. We as journalists, vloggers and bloggers… have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else’s country… That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home… In this age of endless imperial war, invasions and occupations the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us… Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people and not by those is in power. vimeo/67739294
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:13:38 +0000
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