Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780099512684)

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 though-provoking, this is an insider's look at one of the world's most tainted professions.

Author: Nick Davies
ISBN-10: 0099512688
ISBN-13: 9780099512684
Publisher: Vintage UK
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.20d