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Tell me no lies : the best of investigative journalism / edited by John Pilger.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Jonathan Cape, 2004Description: 512 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0224062883
  • 9780224062886
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.43 21
LOC classification:
  • PN4781 .T45 2004
Contents:
Introduction / John Pilger -- Dachau (1945) / Martha Gellhorn -- The Atomic Plague (1945) / Wilfred Burchett -- The menace of McCarthyism (1947-54) / Edward R. Murrow -- The American way of death (1963) / Jessica Mitford -- Through the looking-glass (1966) / James Cameron -- The massacre at My Lai (1970) / Seymour M. Hersh -- Year zero (1979) / John Pilger -- Lowest of the low (Ganz unten) (1985) / Gunter Wallraff -- The Timor papers (1987) / Brian Toohey and Marian Wilkinson -- Exposing Apartheid's death squads (1988-94) / Max du Preez and Jacques Pauw -- The great Lockerbie whitewash (1989-2001) / Paul Foot -- Terrorists (1990/2001) / Robert Fisk -- The secret war against the miners (1994) / Seumas Milne -- Under siege (1996) / Amira Hass -- The Thalidomide scandal : where we went wrong (1997) / Phillip Knightley -- The upside-down world (1998) / Eduardo Galeano -- Chechnya : a dirty war (1999-2002) / Anna Politkovskaya -- A people betrayed (2000) / Linda Melvern -- How to steal the presidency and get away with it (2000-1) / Greg Palast -- Fast food nation (2001) / Eric Schlosser -- Complicity in a million deaths (2003) / Mark Curtis -- Drafting a plan for global dominance (2002) / David Armstrong -- Reporting the truth about Iraq (1998-2004) -- Iraq : the unending war (1998-99) / Felicity Arbuthnot -- Cool war : economic sanctions as a weapon of mass destruction (2002) / Joy Gordon -- Under a false pretext (2002-3) / Richard Norton-Taylor -- Another day in the bloody death of Iraq (2003) / Robert Fisk -- Eyewitness in Falluja (2004) / Jo Wilding -- Covering Islam and terrorism (1997/2002) / Edward W. Said.
Review: "In selecting for this anthology articles, broadcasts and book extracts that have got behind the facade of official silence to reveal important and disturbing truths, John Pilger is paying his own professional tribute to some of the men and women he most admires." "The book ranges from across many of the critical events, scandals and struggles of the past fifty years, from the scenes described by Martha Gellhorn at the liberation of the death camp at Dachau in 1945, to the bloodshed caused by the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Along the way it bears witness to epic injustices committed against the peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Palestine." "John Pilger sets each piece of reportage in its context, often offering personal insights into the writer, and introduces the collection with a passionate essay arguing that the kind of journalism he celebrates here is being subverted by the very forces that ought to be its enemy."--BOOK JACKET.
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Introduction / John Pilger -- Dachau (1945) / Martha Gellhorn -- The Atomic Plague (1945) / Wilfred Burchett -- The menace of McCarthyism (1947-54) / Edward R. Murrow -- The American way of death (1963) / Jessica Mitford -- Through the looking-glass (1966) / James Cameron -- The massacre at My Lai (1970) / Seymour M. Hersh -- Year zero (1979) / John Pilger -- Lowest of the low (Ganz unten) (1985) / Gunter Wallraff -- The Timor papers (1987) / Brian Toohey and Marian Wilkinson -- Exposing Apartheid's death squads (1988-94) / Max du Preez and Jacques Pauw -- The great Lockerbie whitewash (1989-2001) / Paul Foot -- Terrorists (1990/2001) / Robert Fisk -- The secret war against the miners (1994) / Seumas Milne -- Under siege (1996) / Amira Hass -- The Thalidomide scandal : where we went wrong (1997) / Phillip Knightley -- The upside-down world (1998) / Eduardo Galeano -- Chechnya : a dirty war (1999-2002) / Anna Politkovskaya -- A people betrayed (2000) / Linda Melvern -- How to steal the presidency and get away with it (2000-1) / Greg Palast -- Fast food nation (2001) / Eric Schlosser -- Complicity in a million deaths (2003) / Mark Curtis -- Drafting a plan for global dominance (2002) / David Armstrong -- Reporting the truth about Iraq (1998-2004) -- Iraq : the unending war (1998-99) / Felicity Arbuthnot -- Cool war : economic sanctions as a weapon of mass destruction (2002) / Joy Gordon -- Under a false pretext (2002-3) / Richard Norton-Taylor -- Another day in the bloody death of Iraq (2003) / Robert Fisk -- Eyewitness in Falluja (2004) / Jo Wilding -- Covering Islam and terrorism (1997/2002) / Edward W. Said.

"In selecting for this anthology articles, broadcasts and book extracts that have got behind the facade of official silence to reveal important and disturbing truths, John Pilger is paying his own professional tribute to some of the men and women he most admires." "The book ranges from across many of the critical events, scandals and struggles of the past fifty years, from the scenes described by Martha Gellhorn at the liberation of the death camp at Dachau in 1945, to the bloodshed caused by the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Along the way it bears witness to epic injustices committed against the peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Palestine." "John Pilger sets each piece of reportage in its context, often offering personal insights into the writer, and introduces the collection with a passionate essay arguing that the kind of journalism he celebrates here is being subverted by the very forces that ought to be its enemy."--BOOK JACKET.

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