Archive for August 13th, 2013
We need a seriously free media
Posted by John, August 13th, 2013 - under John Pilger, Media.
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Recently, writes John Pilger in Socialist Alternative, I stood outside the strangely silent building where I began life as a journalist. A lesson that endures is that when the rich and powerful own the means of popular enlightenment and dress it up as a “free press”, bestowing a false respectability called the “mainstream”, the opposite is usually true. Sir Frank Packer turned out to be a minnow compared with Rupert Murdoch.