Because I spend so much time surveying and accessing sources of reliable information on the web regarding major world issues, I particularly liked his response to one of the interviewer's questions: "Do you think we’re getting reliable information from the conflict zone in Ukraine?"
Pilger: No, it's impossible to get an informed cover of pretty well anywhere [in] the world, unless you navigate your way through, these days, through the internet. If you don't navigate, and you sit in front of your television set, then you're likely to be given propaganda. It's always been that way - it's probably now more intense, but we do have alternatives now. We do have the internet, but as I say, it requires that research. Otherwise, we sit in front of the TV, or we pick up a newspaper, and we're not so much informed as when we're monitoring it or deconstructing it - that's what I do as a journalist. We live in an age of intense propaganda.However, I keep wondering when our masters will succeed in interfering with internet access as they are now trying to do by allowing corporations to buy faster access which means slower access by independent websites. I predict that you will see more complaints, indirectly engineered or not, about the slow access of many streaming video services like Netflix; and then this issue will be used to justify corporations buying faster online speeds. The legal foundation for this has already be prepared by the courts as reported in the Huffington Post article: "last month's federal appeals court ruling...struck down Federal Communication Commission rules known as net neutrality."
