John Pilger Lauds Robert Parry’s Journalism at 2017 Martha Gellhorn Prize
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By: John Pilger
Journalist Robert Parry | Photo: consortiumnews.com
Pilger made the following remarks in presenting the 15th Martha Gellhorn Prize to U.S. journalist Robert Parry at a dinner in London on June 27, 2017.
There are too many awards for journalism. Too many simply celebrate the status quo. The idea that journalists ought to challenge the status quo - what Orwell called Newspeak and Robert Parry calls ‘groupthink’ - is becoming increasingly rare.
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