Interview with John Pilger:
On the role of the media in rapacious wars like Iraq and Afghanistan.
” ….. Up till the arrival of the corporate press at the 
turn of the 20th century, newspapers were often fiercely independent and saw themselves as voices of ordinary people. The media – press and broadcasting – has long since become an extension of the established order, and frequently its mouthpiece and valet. ……”
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