In his latest factual documentary film by award winning investigative journalist John Pilger, The War You Don’t See exposes 99.99% of news and current affairs media people working for mainstream outfits who never question political liars … Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me again, shame on me… Pilger is voice for the voiceless. Just like Wikileaks and Julian Paul Assange, Pilger is a champion of those for whom he fights and the scourge of politicians. Other films by John Pilger include "War On Democracy" ; "Breaking the Silence" ; "Paying the Price" ; "War By Other Means" . 99.99% of broadcasters cannot match Pilger's performance and backbone. Adam Curtis of the BBC TV made "The Power of Nightmares: The Politics of Fear" that only tried to give credence to the war criminals.

and apparent humourlessness puts me off from the start. I have nightmares of being trapped in a corner at a wedding with him and George Monbiot doing that "if only you really knew what was going on thing"they do all the time. And as for Adam Curtis A + B = a special secret C only he knows about history of the world, enough already.

I watched it last night and it was the usual Pilger paranoia.
In Pilgerworld it's only the UK, USA and Israel that are bad and the rest of the World are all peace loving and wish to live in harmony with each other!!!
Towards the end, with the backdrop of St Bride's, the journalist's church, we got the usual handwringing as he highlighted the journalists that have died or injured in while on duty. Of course he only concentrated on two, one shot by a US Marine and one by an Israeli. No mention at all about the ones imprisoned and killed by China, Iran, Russia, Syria and others. Just the bad old UK, USA, Israel!!
In his eyes British Squaddies are all war criminals but not the Russian forces that destroyed towns in Georgia and Chechnya!
He laughingly demanded balanced reporting, calling the BBC and ITN mouthpieces of the State but declined to give a balance to his own paranoid rantings.

On a similar vein he and his so-called liberal chums, are fighting the cause of Jullian Assange trying to prevent him from being sent to Sweden. Apparently he is struggling to raise the bail money. So between him, Jemima Khan, Bianca Jagger et all they can't raise the bond!! Jemima Khan could probably find it down the back of her sofa if she bothered to look!
No, I'm afraid he's more use to them in jail, the wronged martyr!!
Ironically it appears he would be safer in Sweden as their extradition rules are much tighter than ours as you can't be extradited to any country for political reasons.

Phew, got that off my chest!!!

he was a good and committed journalist when he was with the Daily Mirror and started campaigning for the cause of Cambodia. Have a lot of time for what he did at that time, not many of us in the West would have known about the horrors of the Pol Pot regime had it not been for his reporting. Clearly that period has prejudiced him against anything that America does and I do not trust his reporting now. It's quite right that we should focus on the substance rather than on the communicator but, I'm sorry, no longer trust him and he puts himself at the centre of everything. You are not the subject Pilger, the issue is and he lessens the impact of what he is trying to say by doing so. There is a good journalist in there, but rather like Robert Fisk (who is a fine historian and whose Pity the Nation is an extraordinary book), he has lost that impartiality & judgement which should be at the heart of journalism. The great reporters like James Cameron & Rene Cutforth all had views and you knew where they stood, but they didn't put themselves at the centre of the story, allowed the issue to take centre-stage and for us to make our own mind up.

Even pompous, humorless bores are correct sometimes.

If ever there was a demonstration of how angry people get when you tell them something they don't want to hear, this is it. "Pompous, humorless bores" eh. Thats your reaction after you watch children being dragged from rubble, and a weeping 18 year old suddenly made parentless is it?

Its exactly the kind of journalism that is dying out.

The "pompous, humorless bore" remark comes from my opinion of most of his columns for The New Statesman, which definately are, sadly, mostly tedious. The problems of the world cannot be exclusively blamed on the US and Israel alone and he has a real tendency to do that. However he is also undeniably capable of producing some excellent journalism.

So let me be clear, the "correct sometimes" was the important part of my comment.