[R-G] Freedom Next Time: Filmmaker & Journalist John Pilger on Propaganda, the Press, Censorship and Resisting the American Empire

[Anthony Fenton]

Freedom Next Time: Filmmaker & Journalist John Pilger on Propaganda,  
the Press, Censorship and Resisting the American Empire

"Liberal Democracy is moving toward a form of corporate dictatorship.  
This is an historic shift, and the media must not be allowed to be  
its façade, but itself made into a popular, burning issue, and  
subjected to direct action," said John Pilger. "That great  
whistleblower Tom Paine warned that if the majority of the people  
were denied the truth and the ideas of truth, it was time to storm  
what he called the Bastille of words. That time is now." We spend the  
hour airing a recent lecture by the acclaimed Australian filmmaker  
and muckraker.

Transcript and/or video:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/07/130258