Tell Me No Lies Investigative Journalism That Changed the World

by Pilger, John

• ISBN13: 9781560257868
• ISBN10: 1560257865
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-23
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Prison scandals, terrorism, corporate fraud, election riggingmost likely you have heard something of the sort in the last ten minutes. But what is truth and what is part of the great "washout" of biased reporting? A celebration of lucid investigative reporting, selected by titan of the craft John Pilger, could come at no better moment. Pilger's book travels through contemporary history, from war correspondent Martha Gelhorn's wrenching 1945 account of the liberation of Dachau to Edward R. Murrow's groundbreaking excavation of McCarthyism to recent coverage of the war in Iraq. This homage to brave, often unsettling coverage features a range of great writing, from Seymour Hersh's Vietnam-era muckraking to Eric Schlosser's expose of the fast-food industry to preeminent theorist Edward Said's writing on Islam and terrorism. Unrepentant in its mission to expose the truth behind the messages that politicians, warmongers, and corporate-run media inculcate, Tell Me No Lies is essential for anyone who wants to understand the world around them objectively and intelligently. It's not just a collection of high-quality reporting, but a call-to-arms to all who believe in honesty and justice for humanity.

Author Biography

John Pilger is a two-time winner of British journalism’s highest award, Journalist of the Year, and has won the United Nations Association Media Peace Prize. For his broadcast journalism he has won an Oscar, an Emmy, France’s Reporter Sans Frontières, and Britain’s Richard Dimbleby Award. He lives in London but makes frequent trips to Cornell University, where he holds a Frank H. T. Rhodes Professorship.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Note on the Text	xii
Introduction by John Pilger	xiii
Martha Gellhorn	1	(9)
Dachau (1945)
Wilfred Burchett	10	(16)
The Atomic Plague (1945)
Edward R. Murrow	26	(19)
The Menace of McCarthyism (1947-54)
Jessica Mitford	45	(25)
The American Way of Death (1963)
James Cameron	70	(15)
Through the Looking-Glass (1966)
Seymour M. Hersh	85	(35)
The Massacre at My Lai (1970)
John Pilger	120	(38)
Year Zero (1979)
Günter Wallraff	158	(16)
Lowest of the Low (Ganz unten) (1985)
Brian Toothey, and Marian Wilkinson	174	(17)
The Timor Papers (1987)
Max du Preez and Jacques Pauw	191	(23)
Exposing Apartheid's Death Squads (1988-94)
Paul Foot	214	(41)
The Great Lockerbie Whitewash (1989-2001)
Robert Fisk	255	(29)
Terrorists (1990/2001)
Seumas Milne	284	(48)
The Secret War against the Miners (1994)
Amira Hass	332	(25)
Under Siege (1996)
Phillip Knightley	357	(29)
The Thalidomide Scandal: Where We Went Wrong (1997)
Eduardo Galeano	386	(23)
The Upside-Down World (1998)
Anna Politkovskaya	409	(24)
Chechnya: A Dirty War (1999-2002)
Linda Melvern	433	(32)
A People Betrayed (2000)
Greg Palast	465	(17)
How to Steal the Presidency and Get Away with It (2000-1)
Eric Schlosser	482	(19)
Fast Food Nation (2001)
Mark Curtis	501	(15)
Complicity in a Million Deaths (2003)
David Armstrong	516	(15)
Drafting a Plan for Global Dominance (2002)
Reporting the Truth about Iraq	531	(5)
(1998-2004)
Felicity Arbuthnot	536	(5)
Iraq: The Unending War (1998-99)
Joy Gordon	541	(12)
Cool War: Economic Sanctions as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (2002)
Richard Norton-Taylor	553	(13)
Under a False Pretext (2002-3)
Robert Fisk	566	(7)
Another Day in the Bloody Death of Iraq (2003)
Jo Wilding	573	(10)
Eyewitness in Falluja (2004)
Edward W. Said	583	(19)
Covering Islam and Terrorism (1997/2002)
Sources	602	(4)
Index	606