Michel Could you give some examples of Mr. Parry’s shoddy work?

“To find out the true state of facts, to report them with fidelity, to apply to them strict and fixed principles of justice, humanity and law; to inform as far as possible the very conscience of nations, and to call down the judgment of the world on what is false, or base, or tyrannical, appear to me to be the first duties of those who write.” -Henry Reeve

“If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.” -C. Wright Mills from The Causes of World War III

“Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children’s pastime like mere highway robbery.” -Stephen Crane

larrikin definition – a boisterous, often badly behaved young man – a person with apparent disregard for convention – a maverick

“ya’s had a bit of the larrikin in ya’s.”

“The idea that journalists ought to challenge the status quo …. is becoming increasingly rare.” says John Pilger.

“a space opened up for a journalism that dissented from the groupthink & flourished briefly …. Today that space has almost closed in so-called mainstream.” says John Pilger.

Alas John – it was an oversight on the part of the establishment – they took their eye off the ball – or it was an attempted shot across the bough of the powers that be for a wager rise – & not because it was – even a trial run for ratings.
There is no place in mainstream media for anything less than blind obedience – that any of you “quirky” journo’s made it was a miracle.