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After years of working as a respected journalist, Nick Davies broke the unwritten rule of the media by investigating the practices of his fellow colleagues. In this eye-opening exposé, Davies uncovers an industry awash in corruption and bias. His findings include the story of a prestigious Sunday newspaper that allowed the CIA to plant fiction in its columns; the newsroom that 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; as well as a number of newspapers that pay cash bribes to bent detectives. His research also exposes a range of national stories that were in fact pseudo events manufactured by the public relations industry and global news stories that were fiction generated by a machinery of international propaganda. The degree to which the media industry has affected government policy and perverted popular belief is also addressed. Gripping and thought-p
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Flat Earth News, Nick Davies
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- Pubblicato
- 2008
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- Titolo
- Flat Earth News
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Nick Davies
- Editore
- Random House Uk Limited
- Pubblicato
- 2008
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 408
- ISBN10
- 0701181451
- ISBN13
- 9780701181451
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Tema stórico, Storia, Scienze politiche & Politica, Temi psicologici, Politica, Psicologia, Sociologia, Giornalismo e Pubblicistica, Società
- Valutazione
- 4,15 su 5
- Descrizione
- After years of working as a respected journalist, Nick Davies broke the unwritten rule of the media by investigating the practices of his fellow colleagues. In this eye-opening exposé, Davies uncovers an industry awash in corruption and bias. His findings include the story of a prestigious Sunday newspaper that allowed the CIA to plant fiction in its columns; the newsroom that 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; as well as a number of newspapers that pay cash bribes to bent detectives. His research also exposes a range of national stories that were in fact pseudo events manufactured by the public relations industry and global news stories that were fiction generated by a machinery of international propaganda. The degree to which the media industry has affected government policy and perverted popular belief is also addressed. Gripping and thought-p