How Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18076.htm

Date Written:  26/07/2007
Year Published:  2007  
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14501

John Pilger, applies to current events Orwell's description in '1984' of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinian cameraman by the Israelis as an example of how "we" are trained to look on the rest of the world as quite unlike ourselves: useful or expendable.

Subject Headings

• Censorship/de facto
• Collective Memory
• Double Standards
• Gaza Strip
• Israeli Military
• Israeli Occupation Forces
• Media Bias
• Media Coverage/Middle East
• Memory
• News Bias
• Palestine/Occupation
• Propaganda
• Self Censorship
• Truth
• Violence Against Journalists