The censorship is such on television in the US that films like mine don't stand a chance. - John Pilger

Kim Hill: All this time, then, the United Nations and weapons inspectors have been some kind of puppets of the US.
Pilger: Are you saying that?
Hill: I am asking you whether that is what you are implying?
Pilger: That's a leading question, I wouldn't ...
Hill: How would you describe the activities of the United Nations up until this point?
Pilger: Which area of the United Nations? It's a very big organisation.

Since Chavez’s death in 2013, his successor Nicolas Maduro has shed his derisory label in the Western press as a 'former bus driver' and become Saddam Hussein incarnate.... As the journalist and film-maker Pablo Navarrete reported this week, Venezuela is not the catastrophe it has been painted. 'There is food everywhere,' he wrote. 'I have filmed lots of videos of food in markets [all over Caracas] … it’s Friday night and the restaurants are full.'

Journalists can help people by telling the truth, or by as much truth as they can find, and acting not as agents of governments, of power, but of people. That is real journalism. The rest is specious and false.