War by media and the triumph of propaganda
John Pilger
In the 18th century, Edmund Burke described the role of the press as a
Fourth Estate checking the powerful. Was that ever true? It certainly
doesn't wash any more. What we need is a Fifth Estate: a journalism that
monitors, deconstructs and counters propaganda and teaches the young to
be agents of people, not power. We need what the Russians called
perestroika - an insurrection of subjugated knowledge. I would call it
real journalism.
