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John Pilger, who has died aged 84, was a journalist and documentary maker for whom the word uncompromising might have been invented; he was also probably the only one to inspire his own neologism; in 1991 the Oxford English Dictionary of New Words included the verb &to Pilger&, which it defined as &to conduct journalism in a manner supposedly characteristic of (Australian author and journalist) John Pilger&.