Yesterday ITV aired the iconoclastic journalist John Pilger‘s documentary titled ‘The War You Don’t See’. Over 90 minutes he set about revealing the Machiavellian ‘truth’ behind the headlines and strongly criticised the media for kow-towing to the propagandist line fed to them by the government and military. The result was not only a gross misapplication [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Wikileaks’
The War You Don’t See
Posted in First World War, Military History, Public History, Second World War, War on Terror, tagged Iraq, ITV, John Pilger, Julian Assange, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), War on Terror, Wikileaks, World War I on December 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
History and Wikileaks
Posted in War Studies, tagged Afghanistan, Journalism, Julian Assange, New Media/Web 2.0, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), War Studies, Wikileaks on July 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s funny that on the day I intended to sit down and write about how soldiers on the ground between 1916-1918 circumvented Standard Operating Procedures and tailored information going up the chain of command in the light of perceived perceptions, that Wikileaks blew the lid on 92,201 US documents pertaining to the conduct of the [...]
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