Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media

By Nick Davies

Book Overview

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 expos , 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099512688
• ISBN13: 9780099512684
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 7.7"