Flat Earth News An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media

Name: Flat Earth News An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
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ISBN: 9780099512684

ISBN-10: 0099512688

ISBN-13: 9780099512684

Edition: 2009

Authors: Nick Davies

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'Finally I was forced to admit that I work in a corrupted profession.' 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 off-the-record 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…

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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication date: 5/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.80" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Prologue



Flat Earth Stories



The Bug that Ate the World



The News Factory



The Workers



The Suppliers



The Rules of Production



Hidden Persuaders



The Private Life of Public Relations



The Propaganda Puzzle



Inside Stories



The Dark Arts



Insight into the Sunday Times



The Blinded Observer



Mail Aggression


Epilogue


Index