Media schedules war for prime time
"Another London-based journalist, John Pilger, is even more disparaging. Interviewed by the Progressive, he argues: "Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoes of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as functionaries, not journalists."

Media schedules war for prime time
"Another London-based journalist, John Pilger, is even more disparaging. Interviewed by the Progressive, he argues: "Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoes of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as functionaries, not journalists."