![]() This is an unequivocally political book appealing to the educated general reader. Pilger's real concern throughout this book is the story, not the news. Kate Adie, like most of her colleagues, had reported the news, but not the story" (pp. ![]() In his bitter criticism of global media coverage of the Gulf War, he writes: "The war was not a war at all. That Pilger knows what the truth is, is a central premise of his book. ![]() He goes on to note: "When slow news is included, it is more than likely dressed in a political and social vocabulary that ensures the truth is lost" (p. By "slow news" Pilger means those stories which have not received serious media coverage. Pilger writes in the introduction: "This book is devoted to slow news" (p. Pilger's primary themes, however, are conÂsiderably fewer: media control, globalization, the military, capitalism, and, cruÂcially, opposition to this ideology. At nearly 700 pages it is lengthy and its list of subjects includes Vietnam, East Timor, apartheid, English tabloid newspapers, Wapping, Rupert Murdoch, Burma, Hillsborough, Australian aboriginals, Kenya, Tony Blair and New Labour, the Gulf War, and Northern Ireland. ![]() Those who admire the work of John Pilger, journalist and film maker, will find much to enthuse over in Hidden Agendas, his seventh book. ![]()
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