John Pilger, "one of the worst journalists writing in the English language," smears Obama [View all]

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Here's a video where this fake journalist says Obama worked for the CIA, is "fake" (1:00). In this video you can see the Pilger BS that has caused his name to become a verb--to "pilgerize" is " to present information in a sensationalist manner to reach a foregone conclusion."

Any surprise that Pilger also hearts Putin and has been caught lying while smearing the Ukrainian government?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger#Criticism

English writer Auberon Waugh, writing in The Spectator in the 1980s in response to an article Pilger had written alleging Thai complicity in child trafficking (whose research was challenged), coined the verb "to pilger", defined as: to present information in a sensationalist manner to reach a foregone conclusion." The word was included in the Oxford Dictionary of New Words in 1991, but removed from the subsequent edition after Pilger complained.

William Shawcross has described him as "one of the worst journalists writing in the English language".[93]

The Economist '​s Lexington columnist commented on Pilger's account of the Arab uprising:

Next up is the egregious John Pilger, who thinks the Arab revolts show that the West in general and the United States in particular are "fascist." ... Maybe he hasn't noticed, but what most of the Arab protesters say they want are the very freedoms that they know full well, even if Pilger doesn't, to be available in the West. No doubt he believes they are labouring under some massive mind-control delusion engineered by the CIA.[94]

The New York magazine columnist Jonathan Chait responded to Pilger's 13 May 2014 column in The Guardian about Ukraine.[95] In the view of Chait, Pilger "defend[s] Vladimir Putin on the grounds that he stands opposed to the United States, which is the font of all evil" as a comical "attempt to cast land-grabbing, ultranationalist dictator Vladimir Putin as an enemy of fascism." [96] Pilger's column also contained a bogus quote from a non-existent Jewish Doctor which misleadingly gives the impression that the demonstrators expressed pro Nazi and antisemitic views while preventing the victims of the Odessa tragedy of 2 May from being rescued.