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Books : Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Mediaby: Nick Davies
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 Rating:  - InvaluableA copy of this book should be put in the hands of every man, woman, child, cat and dog on the planet. We are being drowned in a sea of rolling news, breaking news, 'keeping you updated', etc etc - and it's all crap. Many of us knew the news has been distorted for years, but as Nick Davies proves the modern media can now only produce hogwash (actually, that's an insult to hogwash). At a time when we need a proper Fourth Estate we get junk. There are faults with the book: it's probably overlong and ... Read More Rating:  - Potentially important book, but fatally flawedThe cover of this book is splattered with quotes saying how important this book is, and they're sort of right. Davies looks with a piercing insiders eye at why the news reported to us -- even from "heavyweight" sources -- is even less dependable than even cynics think. The book clearly shows how commercial factors have all but eliminated any checking of stories, so the media are almost completely at the mercy of PR generated by vested interests. The problem -- and it's a big one -- is ... Read More Rating:  - Establishment journalist turns tables and burns bridgesNick Davies used to be a professional journalist. Flat Earth News has to stand as one of the most intensive episodes of bridge-burning in recent writing. Davies turned his focus on his own industry and has produced a highly readable account of how, in his own words, he worked in a, "...corrupted profession." This isn't a fish-shooting exercise in why tabloid journalism isn't to be trusted; after all, surely nobody reads the gutter press expecting to actually learn something about the ... Read More Rating:  - .I'd always had a feeling that I was being misled by the mainstream media, but never really knew how it came about. This book went a long way to answering that question, and I now understand how the media is manipulated by a variety of sources so that what gets presented is very rarely the news as it happened. My only criticism of the book is its coverage of the propaganda war in Iraq. It's undoubtedly all true, and relevant to the book, but I found that the middle of the book onwards was ... Read More Rating: - The rise and rise of 'churnalism'Today newspapers are run purely for profit. This means that numbers of reporters are being cut. This means that they can't get out into the world and build contacts that will help them unearth stories. This means that, by and large, they have time to just sit at a desk and recycle (sometimes just plain re-use) stories from: 1. News agencies, who feel it's not their job to interpret anything, merely report it, so no fact checking. This stuff goes straight into papers and broadcast media without being ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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