Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs - Softcover

Pilger, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099437457 ISBN 13: 9780099437451

Publisher: Vintage, 2005

Synopsis

Tell Me No Lies is a celebration of the very best investigative journalism, and includes writing by some of the greatest practitioners of the craft: Seymour Hersh on the My Lai massacre; Paul Foot on the Lockerbie cover-up; Wilfred Burchett, the first Westerner to enter Hiroshima following the atomic bombing; Israeli journalist Amira Hass, reporting from the Gaza Strip in the 1990s; Gunter Wallraff, the great German undercover reporter; Jessica Mitford on 'The American Way of Death'; Martha Gelhorn on the liberation of the death camp at Dachau.

The book - a selection of articles, broadcasts and books extracts that revealed important and disturbing truths - ranges from across many of the critical events, scandals and struggles of the past fifty years. Along the way it bears witness to epic injustices committed against the peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Palestine.

John Pilger sets each piece of reporting in its context and introduces the collection with a passionate essay arguing that the kind of journalism he celebrates here is being subverted by the very forces that ought to be its enemy. Taken as a whole, the book tells an extraordinary 'secret history' of the modern era. It is also a call to arms to journalists everywhere - before it is too late.

About this title

Review:

"A first-rate selection of investigative articles from some of the world's best reporters" (Guardian)

"One of the most powerful and upsetting books I have read all year" (Ecologist)

"A superb anthology" (Glasgow Herald)

"Genuine objective journalism not only gets the facts right, it gets the meaning of events right. It is compelling not only today, but stands the test of time. It is validated not only by 'reliable sources' but by the unfolding of history. It is journalism that ten, twenty, fifty years after the fact still holds up a true and intelligent mirror to events" (T.D. Allman)

From the Publisher:

An incisive anthology of investigative journalism, edited and introduced by the bestselling reporter and film-maker John Pilger

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0099437457
• ISBN 13: 9780099437451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672