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

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The work Flat Earth news : an award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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

Title remainder

an award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media

Statement of responsibility

Nick Davies

Creator

• Davies, Nick, 1953-
• Davies, Nick, 1953-

Subject

• Journalism -- Corrupt practices

Language

eng

Summary

"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." "Working with a network of sources, Davies uncovered the story of the prestigious Sunday newspaper which allowed the CIA and MI6 to plant fiction in its columns; the newsroom which routinely rejects stories about black people; the respected paper that hired a professional fraudster to set up a front company to entrap senior political figures; the newspapers which support law and order while paying cash bribes to bent detectives." "Davies names names and exposes the national stories which turn out to be pseudo-events manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a new machinery of international propaganda. He shows the impact of this on a world where consumers believe a mass of stories which, in truth, are as false as the idea that the Earth is flat - from the millenium bug to the WMD in Iraq - tainting government policy, perverting popular belief. He presents a new model for understanding news. With the help of researchers from Cardiff University, who ran a ground-breaking analysis of our daily news, Davies found most reporters, most of the time, are not allowed to dig up stories or check their facts - a profession corrupted at the core."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

UKM

Index

index present

LC call number

PN5124.O24

LC item number

D38 2008

Literary form

non fiction