John Pilger at Town & Country
WHY DON’T YOU KNOW THIS AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST? Learn more about the history he has documented, the stories behind the headlines of corporate media, the political and economic mechanisms that construct today’s world, his journalism, and his 40 years of film-making and television programming in Britain.
Don’t miss the chance to hear perspectives of a journalist who goes for the story and not a public relations gloss. John Pilger, whose career in journalism began as a copy-boy at the Sydney Sun in his native Australia, and today has columns in the Guardian and The New Statesman, says it is a “myth that the readers didn’t want a serious approach to journalism in a popular newspaper.”
Pilger states the Internet has “changed so much” and today, his columns reach broad audiences, even in the United States. He encourages journalism students to “keep your principles as you navigate the system”.
“If journalists can look behind the press-release version of events, or push back the screen of what is often propaganda but rarely recognized as such,” he says, “then we will produce true journalism, not a form of PR. We ought to be the agents of people, not power.” http://www.johnpilger.com/
This event was originally held at the Town & Country Performing Arts Center, November 4th, 2008.