In September 2014 , Pilger wrote critically of '' The Guardian '' and other western media , regarding their reporting on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 , writing " Without a single piece of evidence , the US and its NATO allies and their media machines blamed ethnic Russian ' separatists ' in Ukraine and implied that Moscow was ultimately responsible " . He asserted that " the newspaper has made no serious attempt to examine who shot the aeroplane down and why " . Pilger wrote in December 2002 , of British broadcasting 's requirement for " impartiality " as being " a euphemism for the consensual view of established authority " . He wrote that " BBC television news faithfully echoed word for word " government " propaganda designed to soften up the public for Blair 's attack on Iraq " . In his documentary '' The War You Do n't See '' ( 2010 ) , Pilger returned to this theme and accused the BBC of failing to cover the viewpoint of the victims , civilians caught up in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq . He has additionally pointed to the 48 documentaries on Ireland made for the BBC and ITV between 1959 and the late-1980s which were delayed or altered before transmission , or totally suppressed
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
John Pilger