Covering Politics in the '90s (5/9): Albert du Roy, Michael Leapman (1993)

June 19, 1993 www.amazon.com Albert du Roy: www.amazon.com Michael Leapman: www.amazon.com Paper Tigers: Latest Greatest Newspaper Tycoons and How They Won the World www.amazon.com Conrad Black: www.amazon.com John Richard Pilger (born 9 October 1939) is an Australian journalist and documentary maker, based in London. He has twice won Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award, and his documentaries have received academy awards in Britain and the US. Noam Chomsky said of Pilger: "John Pilger's work has been a beacon of light in often dark times. The realities he has brought to light have been a revelation, over and over again, and his courage and insight a constant inspiration." In Breaking the Silence: The Television Reporting of John Pilger, his appraisal of the journalist's documentaries, Anthony Hayward wrote, "For more than a generation, he has been an ever stronger voice for those without a voice and a thorn in the side of authority, the Establishment. His work, particularly his television documentaries, has also made him rare in being a journalist who is universally known, a champion of those for whom he fights and the scourge of politicians and others whose actions he exposes." * According to Harold Pinter, Nobel Laureate and member of the Stop the War Coalition, "John Pilger is fearless. He unearths, with steely attention to facts, the filthy truth, and tells it as it is... I salute him." * Martha Gellhorn, the American novelist, journalist and war correspondent ...

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