John Pilger: Breaking the Mirror

Synopsis: Documentary. Originally broadcast in 1997, the film considers the downfall of the newspaper Pilger worked on for 23 years: a popular, intelligent tabloid once read by a quarter of the British population and which reflected its readers’ concerns. Pilger asks why the qualities seen in the Daily Mirror prior to the 1970s are no longer apparent, examining the contraction of the press following the Sun’s symbolic move to Wapping, coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, the fate of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, and the stranglehold of Rupert Murdoch.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2015
Year of production: 1997
Notes: Includes a new introduction by John Pilger recorded in 2014.
Subjects: Media studies; Politics & government
Keywords: journalism; newspapers; Murdoch, Rupert; Pilger, John; Daily Mail

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