The Falklands
Sir, — How -much longer must;-.we put;up with the journalistic drivel fairly oozing from the South Atlantic? Newspapers gush into print,with the latest “score” as if-we were witnessing a glorious football match. Radio journalists, jingo all the way, frequently in a manner akin'to the Boer War journalistic absurdity. Where is the background, the analysis? Where are the journalists and editors who are prepared to tell the public not just Where, when, who and how, but why? Journalism exists to tell - its readers the truth, not to fawn to the establishment view. Human lives, are being wasted for the sake of a piece of British private property in the South . Atlantic, but who really cares? In the words of an Australian journalist, John Pilger: “If we journalists don’t set the record straight, then who will?” — Yours, etc., A. MOORE. June 1, 1982..
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