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Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by: Nick Davies List Price: £17.99 City Travel Guides Price: £10.69 You Save: £7.30 (41%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780701181451 ISBN: 0701181451 Label: Chatto and Windus Manufacturer: Chatto and Windus Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: February 07, 2008 Publisher: Chatto and Windus Studio: Chatto and Windus Sales Rank: 573 Related Items:
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 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 almost totally devoted to it, and it just turned me off a bit. It felt at times like the real message of the book was a criticism of Blair and Bush and that the stuff about the press was merely to illustrate that point, rather than the other way ... 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 checked. 2. PR. PR agencies who work for organisations send out press releases, which by definition will not be fair or balanced. And that goes straight into the news too. Interestingly, there's also the issue of 'Astroturf' groups: supposedly ... Read More: Rating: - Who stole our journalism?The answer to that question and many others you didn't think you needed to know are all in this fantastic book. It is both illumintaing and at the same time depressing to realise that even the most trusted brands of journalism have become victim, like so much of our media, to the forces of money-making, fast-turnaround and nonsense PR. This book is an startling education for anyone who reads or watches 'news', not just those connected to the industry. Rating: - Brave ManNick Davies must be a brave man... He has launched a devastating attack on not only the state of modern journalism, but also on the basic integrity of many of those involved in the profession. And this from a major paper journalist who must now have made a lot of enemies within his industry. I'm sure you have noticed how very similar versions of the same stories are posted online by apparently independent and well funded news organisations - especially in America for news outside the US. This book explains why, and how the facts of these clone stories are often unchecked by the trusted organisations putting them into the public domain. The book also covers the pernicious effects and influence of PR and also, perhaps most depressingly, ... Read More: Rating: - Generalisations, deletions, distortionsI'm partway through this book. Enjoying it thoroughly. I'm learning a lot from it. I used to think journalists were lazy and would just publish any rubbish, or government spin they were fed. I now know that Phil Space is the great journalistic archetype, and that he or she will indeed publish any rubbish sent their way. More usefully I now know why they have to do this, and the pressures of time and resource they are forced to operate under. The great themes of capitalism- destroy professions, deskill, reduce terms and conditions, demand more for less, pretend it's all getting better, confuse change with progress, display themselves. Sadly as consumers we do not demand enough of our newspapers so the grocer proprietors ... Read More: |
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