Flat Earth news : an award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media

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Title:

Author:

Davies, Nick, 1953-

ISBN:

9780099512684

Personal Author:

Davies, Nick, 1953-

Publication Information:

London : Vintage, 2009.

Physical Description:

420 pages ; 20 cm

General Note:

Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2008.

Includes index.

Contents:

The bug that ate the world -- The workers -- The suppliers -- The rules of production -- The private life of public relations -- The propaganda puzzle -- The dark arts -- insight in to the Sunday Times -- The blinded Observer -- Mail aggression -- Epilogue.

Abstract:

When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance.

Subject Term:

Journalism -- Corrupt practices.

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Summary

Does 'fake news' really exist? Find out from the ultimate insider.

After years of working as a respected journalist, Nick Davies, in this shocking expose, reveals what really goes on behind the scenes of this contentious industry.

From a prestigious newspaper that allowed intelligence agencies to plant fiction in its columns, to the newsroom that routinely rejected stories due to racial bias, to the number of papers that accepted cash bribes. Gripping, thought-provoking and revelatory, this is an insider's look at one of the most tainted professions.

'Meticulous, fair-minded and utterly gripping' Telegraph

'Powerful and timely...his analysis is fair, meticulously researched and fascinating' Observer