Tell Me No Lies - John Pilger

The truth is often offensive, and that's why most of you have only ever heard your news from aesthetically pleasing TV journalists like Raggi Omah, John Simpson and Kate Aidie, patronising you with sanitised sound bites so you can sleep guilt free at night and so not be complicit in the oppression of the third world which Britain's foreign policy seems to specialises in. It's only later the real truth seeps out and so why you won't have heard of intrepid and respected journalists like Seymour Hersch, Paul Foot and Linda Melvin, for example, the purveyors of that uncomfortable truth, they also sanitised as the big media conglomerates all but censor them by not putting ...  Read the complete review

"Tell Me No Lies" is one of the best books I've read this year. John Pilger has put together a collection of some of the very best investigative articles in journalism by some of the most respected practitioners of the craft. The accounts stand in contrast to much of today's journalism that seems to make more and more compromises to the handful of multinational news corporations that now fund and control it. Each chapter concentrates on a particular previously published newspaper article, a broadcast, or a book extract. Exposure is given to some of the most important and disturbing truths of the past fifty years. I regard myself as being pretty well ...  Read the complete review