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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| North Bay Public Library | 302.23 Dav | 33874005008593 | Adult - Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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- ISBN: 9780099512684
- ISBN: 0701181451 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9780701181451 (hbk.)
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Physical Description:
408 p. ; 25 cm.
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- Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 2008.
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| General Note: | Includes index. Also published: Vintage, 2009 |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Pt. 1. Flat Earth Stories -- 1. The Bug that Ate ... Read More |
| Summary, etc.: | "When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided ... Read More |
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| Subject: | Journalism Corrupt practices Mass media and propaganda Mass media Objectivity |
Summary:
"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 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; the newspapers which support law and order while paying cash bribes to bent detectives." "Davies names 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 millenium 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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