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 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; 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 effect 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.

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.

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Very interesting content, narration is a bit boring, u might fell sick about some media facts

Very good

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Various facts that support the notion that the media, particularly the press frequently publish stories that are not true/correct. Who knew? well Nick Davies gives lost of explanation and evidence citing many examples. Well written but I personally lost interest pretty quickly.

Newspapers are self indulgent liars...apparently

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A wonderful book. Well read, a very sad story about the moden media and its contempt for the truth. That's why you should read it.

Should be read by everybody.

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This is a fascinating insight into the world of journalism, where so much of what is reported today ranges from biased spin and half-truths to downright deceit. Many of the stories are shocking and very revealing about the people who write the news, and those that employ them.

This book is an enlightening commentary on an industry that is undergoing fundamental change, and leaves one wondering what sources are going to replace the mainstream media into the future, because we simply can't depend on them any more.

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the world really is doomed if the "mad media" is as bad as it is painted here and if the peers that be don't fix it and if the people just swallow it all up as "news" and truth.

depressing news indeed

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