- Data di nascita
- Data di morte30 dicembre 2023 · Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito (fibrosi polmonare)
- Nome alla nascitaJohn Richard Pilger
- John Pilger è nato il 9 ottobre 1939. Luogo di nascita: Australia. È conosciuto come sceneggiatore e regista. È celebre per aver partecipato a The War You Don't See (2010), Heroes: A John Pilger Report (1981) e The World About Us (1967). È stata sposato con Scarth Flett. Morì il 30 dicembre 2023. Luogo di morte: Inghilterra, Regno Unito.
- ConiugeScarth Flett (divorziato, 1 bambino)
- BambiniZoe Pilger
- ParentiGraham Pilger(Sibling)
- An award-winning journalist. He worked for example in newspapers like The Daily Mirror, Guardian and New Statesman.
- Pilger's career as a documentary film maker began with The Quiet Mutiny (1970), made during one of his visits to Vietnam, and continued with over 50 documentaries thereafter.
- Pilger won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award in 1967 and 1979.
- Shortly after Pilger won the Sydney Peace Prize in 2009, the Australian conservative commentator Gerard Henderson accused Pilger of "engaging in hyperbole against western democracies".
- During his work with BBC's Midweek television series during 1972-73, Pilger completed five documentary reports, but only two were broadcast.
- It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.
- Official truths are often powerful illusions.
- [His advice for those who seek career in journalism] If you have passion and a will, you'll find a way.
- Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
- I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.
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