John Pilger

John Pilger is a left wing Australian journalist from Sydney. Pilger's career in journalism began in 1958, and he has earned a good reputation through both his reporting and the various books and documentary films that he has written or produced. On the right, conversely, he has been subjected to ridicule and scorn, with the late Auberon Waugh in Britain coining the verb 'to pilger'. He is best known in Britain for his investigative documentaries, particularly those on Cambodia and East Timor. He has acted as a war correspondent during conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Egypt, India, Bangladesh and Biafra.

Works

Publications

Pilger has written for the following publications:

• Daily Mirror (UK)
• The Guardian (UK)
• The Independent (UK)
• New Statesman
• The New York Times (US)
• The Los Angeles Times (US)
• The Nation: New York (US)
• The Age: Melbourne (Australia)
• The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
• The Bulletin: Sydney (Australia)

He has also written for various French, Italian, Scandinavian, Canadian and Japanese newspapers and periodicals, among others, and has contributed to the BBC's news service.

Documentaries

• 1979
• Japan Behind the Mask 1987
• 1994
• 1995
• 1996
• Apartheid Did Not Die 1998
• Welcome To Australia 1999
• 2000
• Palestine Is Still the Issue 2002
• 2003

(There might also be other documentaries made by John Pilger)

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Books

• The Last Day (1975)
• Aftermath: The Stuggles of Cambodia and Vietnam (1981)
• The Outsiders (1984)
• Heroes (1986)
• A Secret Country (1989)
• Distant Voices (1992 and 1994)
• Hidden Agendas (1998)
• The New Rulers of the World (2002)

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Play

• The Last Day (1983)

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Quotes

• I know when Bush is lying. His lips move."

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