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If you are Australian you need to read this book. Some of the things within will make you cry, make you ashamed and make you proud.
Pilger is a first rate journalist. He believes a journalist ought to be a guardian of the public memory and often quotes Milan Kundera: "The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
"It is too easy," he says, "for Western journalists to see humanity in terms of its usefulness to 'our' interests and to follow government agendas t ...more
Pilger is a first rate journalist. He believes a journalist ought to be a guardian of the public memory and often quotes Milan Kundera: "The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
"It is too easy," he says, "for Western journalists to see humanity in terms of its usefulness to 'our' interests and to follow government agendas t ...more
Nov 25, 2007
Kerry
rated it
it was amazing
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Oct 20, 2009
Anne_MB
marked it as read-to-give-away
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Sep 18, 2021
Todd
marked it as waiting-on-my-shelf
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