RIP 2023
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Got caught out in the early '80's onwards making stuff up. Did an article about child slavery in Thailand but the "slave" girl he said he rescued was his assistant's daughter. When exposed, he claimed it was a CIA plot to discredit him...
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@Victor-Meldrew Hats off to The Times obituary team. This is one of the best takedowns I've read in a while.
John Pilger, campaigning Australian journalist, dies aged 84
Controversial, left-wing documentary maker whose name inspired an unflattering verb
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Hats off to The Times obituary team. This is one of the best takedowns I've read in a while.
Brilliant:
By the early Seventies, he had acquired a taste for never travelling less than club class and sporting expensive designer shirts that were invariably laundered at Jeeves of Belgravia. Whenever he was reporting on the iniquities of the Thai military and western capitalism in Thailand, he invariably stayed at the Mandarin Oriental, one of the grandest and most expensive hotels in Asia.
To further add to his “Bollinger Bolshevik” credentials, he also acquired a farmhouse in Tuscany, where an architect created a conversation pit, which he decorated with photographs of himself in the company of assorted freedom fighters, anti-imperialists and left-wing dictators.
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@Victor-Meldrew This sums it up well too.
