Why... oh, why... oh, why...???
Not the Pilsener of Journalism!!!
Vale John Pilgar - daredevil of Australian Journalism.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-31/australian-journalist-documentarian-john-...

"Veteran Australian journalist and documentary-maker John Pilger dies in London, aged 84



John Pilger's family have remembered him as "the most amazing and loved Dad, Grandad and partner"
The journalist and documentary-maker won an Emmy, a BAFTA and the Sydney Peace Prize during his career
He was highly critical of Western foreign policy and Australia's treatment of its Indigenous peoples

His family announced his death in a post on social media, saying Pilger's journalism and documentaries were "celebrated around the world".

"To his family he was simply the most amazing and loved Dad, Grandad and partner," they wrote.
Pilger is survived by his son Sam and daughter Zoe.

Sam Pilger wrote on social media platform X: "I am heartbroken, but also so very proud and grateful to have had such an amazing Dad. He was my hero."

John Pilger grew up in Sydney's Bondi, before working as a reporter for the Reuters news agency and as a foreign correspondent for Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper.

In his 20s he became the first person to have won Britain's Journalist of the Year award twice.
He later moved to the United States, where he reported on the social upheaval of the late 1960s and 1970s, including the assassination of Robert Kennedy, for which he was present.

He also received acclaim for his reporting from South-East Asia, including documentaries on conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia and East Timor.

His documentaries won numerous awards, including an Emmy and a BAFTA, and he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 2009.

In addition to railing against Western foreign policy throughout his career, Pilger was a staunch critic of Australia's treatment of its Indigenous peoples.

He made a series of documentaries on the topic, including The Secret Country (1985), Welcome to Australia (1999) and Utopia (2013).

In more recent years, he was a visible supporter and friend of Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who he said had launched a "moral revolution in journalism".

Leading the tributes to Pilger on social media, former ABC journalist Quentin Dempster wrote on X: "Pilger exposed atrocity, war crimes, abuse of power, dispossession, hypocrisy and dirty tricks around the world in a life of fearless truth telling. May he rest in peace."

Broadcaster and ABC Late Night Live host Phillip Adams wrote: "Vale John Pilger. Friend of mine, of Julian Assange and of the truth. A sad end to a bad year.""

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Good Bondi boy and mates with my uncle

R.I.P

John Pilgar influenced my political thinking years ago, at a time when I didn't know who to blame for this, or who to blame for that. I became less confused about issues because of John's thought provoking commentary

He had a way about him that could straighten things out so you could understand them clearly, and then you could take things from there

He certainly was a "full-brain" journalist, in a world of "half-brains"

So true Bias.

Yes, he does look like an old fashioned Bondi Boy, Gordon.
Sadly these days, Bondi Boys look Middle-Eastern now.