Flat Earth News

'Finally I was forced to admit that I work in a corrupted profession.' When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance. Working with a network of off-the-record sources, Davies uncovered the story of the prestigious "Sunday" newspaper which allowed: the CIA and MI6 to plant fiction in its columns; the newsroom which 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; and the newspapers which support law and order while paying cash bribes to bent detectives.Davies names and exposes the national stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a new machinery of international propaganda. He shows the impact of this on a world where consumers believe a mass of stories which, in truth, are as false as the idea that the Earth is flat - from the millennium bug to the WMD in Iraq - tainting government policy, perverting popular belief. He presents a new model for understanding news. With the help of researchers from Cardiff University, who ran a ground-breaking analysis of our daily news, Davies found most reporters, most of the time, are not allowed to dig up stories or check their facts - a profession corrupted at the core. Read all about it. The news will never look the same again.

ISBN 0701181451   Pages 416 ISBN13 9780701181451 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Vintage   Weight (grammes) 662 Imprint Chatto & Windus   Published in London Format Hardback   Height (mm) 241 Publication date 07 Feb 2008   Width (mm) 157 Library of Congress 2008399789   Spine width (mm) 35 DEWEY 072   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

Pt. 1		Flat Earth Stories		7
1		The Bug that Ate the World		9
Pt. 2		The News Factory		47
2		The Workers		49
3		The Suppliers		74
4		The Rules of Production		109
Pt. 3		Hidden Persuaders		155
5		The Private Life of Public Relations		157
6		The Propaganda Puzzle		205
Pt. 4		Inside Stories		257
7		The Dark Arts		259
8		Insight into the Sunday Times		287
9		The Blinded Observer		329
10		Mail Aggression		357
		Epilogue		391
		Index		399

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