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Tim Blair is all over

Tim Blair is all over John Pilger's latest, pointing out yet another case of gratuitous inflation of Marc Herold's widely-debunked study of Afghan civilian deaths. He points out another instance of Pilger's imaginative use of statistics, and writes:

Weirdly, Pilger's contradictory stories are both at his website, providing easy pickings for Pilger-debunkers like me. Does he want to be caught? What kind of self-destructive maniac are we dealing with here?

I don't know exactly what kind, though I detect a certain Fiskiness in the air at Pilger.com. Registering his disapproval of journalists who write as though they disagree with his premise that the US and the UK ought not to have a foreign policy, Pilger says: "the honourable exceptions lift the spirits. One piece by Robert Fisk will do that, regardless of his subject." Well, birds of a feather...

Damian Penny drags the stagnant lake of Pilger's hysterical imagination and turns up all the usual bodies, if you're interested.

Posted by Dr. Frank at March 27, 2002 10:16 AM | TrackBack