Re: Joy! Owen Jones is writing a book about Corbynism Archived Message
Posted by brooks on September 20, 2020, 2:48 pm, in reply to "Re: Joy! Owen Jones is writing a book about Corbynism"
As a young person with almost a desperate thirst for an alternative to the status quo, John Pilger was an inspiration. I had many of his books; I read his articles and watched his documentaries almost religiously. Here was an example of a journalist who stood up to injustice and the powerful, and courageously so. These days, it’s fair to say that I’m more of a fan of the earlier John Pilger than his current incarnation. There is no "current incarnation" of Pilger: he's always been a fearless and brilliant truth-teller and dissident. The problem is that the current incarnation Owen Jones is a go-along-to-get-along fake-left grifter and establishment hack who wants to stay in the club and trims his dissent accordingly. How could he be a fan of a real journalist who refuses to play this game and whose work exposes his own grifting and hypocrisy?
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Message Thread:
- Joy! Owen Jones is writing a book about Corbynism - Ian M September 18, 2020, 1:59 pm
- Should be titled: Jeremy Corbyn: My Part in His Downfall. NM - johnlilburne September 18, 2020, 2:54 pm
- Re: Joy! Owen Jones is writing a book about Corbynism - Raskolnikov September 18, 2020, 3:21 pm
- Re: Joy! Owen Jones is writing a book about Corbynism - brooks September 18, 2020, 6:33 pm
- Great minds, etc... - Mark Doran September 18, 2020, 6:34 pm
- Learn lessons from it - Earn lessons from it. He's the young vicar ones nm - Focus September 18, 2020, 9:53 pm
- Re: Joy! Owen Jones is writing a book about Corbynism - Raskolnikov September 19, 2020, 7:27 pm
- could this be Corbyn's final humiliation or will that be his apology to Jones?....nm - Keith-264 September 20, 2020, 11:12 pm
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