“Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self again. I received a call asking if I would write for it again, which I've done. It's a pleasure to be able to do that. It's become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news.” IfsWritingImportantSelfDoneSeemsAblePleasureMediaNewsRootsDecidedAskingMirrorsEstablishmentSeptemberGood NewsSupportiveAntidoteSeptember 11Old Self Author:John Pilger
“Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.” MindUsedVoiceTerribleWeaponsCommittedBritishPropagandaEmpiresHelpfulEstablishmentPassiveDiscourseEmanatePassive Voice Author:John Pilger
“British establishment uses "the royal we," as in, "We think this." You hear a lot of that these days. It erroneously suggests that those who are making the decisions to bomb countries, to devastate economies, to take part in acts of international piracy involve all of us.” ThinkingCountryUseDecisionEconomyInternationalBritishThese DaysBombsEstablishmentRoyalPiracy Author:John Pilger
“Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words "impartiality" and "objectivity" is that they have lost their dictionary meaning. They've been taken over. "Impartiality" and "objectivity" now mean the establishment point of view.” MeanProblemLostViewsTakenPoint Of ViewObjectivesJournalistEstablishmentDictionaryObjectivityImpartiality Author:John Pilger
“Whenever a journalist says to me, "Oh, you don't understand, I'm impartial, I'm objective," I know what he's saying. I can decode it immediately. It means he channels the official truth. Almost always. That protestation means he speaks for a consensual view of the establishment. This is internalized.” KnowsMeanI CanSpeakViewsObjectivesJournalistOfficialsEstablishment Author:John Pilger
“Journalists don't sit down and think, "I'm now going to speak for the establishment." Of course not. But they internalize a whole set of assumptions, and one of the most potent assumptions is that the world should be seen in terms of its usefulness to the West, not humanity. This leads journalists to make a distinction between people who matter and people who don't matter.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldMatterWholeHumanityCoursesSpeakTermDown AndWestJournalistAssumptionDistinctionEstablishmentUsefulness Author:John Pilger
“The Mirror has become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news.” ImportantMediaNewsMirrorsEstablishmentGood NewsSupportiveAntidote Author:John Pilger
