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

from jontseng

A coruscating crucifixion of modern British journalism. The chapter on the Daily Mail is chilling. The highest commendation of this work are the subsequent reviews - high praise through gritted teeth. Interesting that no-one able to land a killer blow on Davies' core thesis.

from tixylix

This book really opened my eyes to the world of 'churnalism' and the lengths that some newspapers and journalists will go to, to get that scoop. It was particularly timely during the investigations into phone hacking which are currently going on too. Davies cites example after example of not just...

from othersam

I'd suspected, of course, that most of what sadly passes for "headline news" right now is, in fact, a load of b*ll*cks. What I didn't know was why. Read this passionate, vital and implacably well-argued book, and you'll never trust a headline again.

from iamiam

Continuing in the pattern of “lemme tell you what I think about this”, here's the book that was finished earlier this week. Once you've read it, you probably will read newspapers more carefully; no matter how carefully you thought you read them before. First, however, let's have one thing clear ...

from Miro

Nick Davies illustrates and explains the decline in newspaper news quality over the last 30 years. It isn't a conspiracy, it's just an overwhelming commercial logic forcing less journalists to produce more stories. How can they do it? They copy them from the pre packaged Associated Press news fee...