Flat Earth News

Resumen del libro

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 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.

Biografía del autor

Nick Davies (1953) es un periodista de investigación que escribe regularmente desde hace años en The Guardian. Tras lograr el título de Filosofía, Política y Economía en la Universidad de Oxford, empezó a dedicarse al periodismo en 1976. Ha colaborado en diversos diarios británicos, como The Evening Standard, The Observer o The Guardian. También ha hecho reportajes periodísticos para la televisión y ha publicado diversos libros, entre los que destacan Dark Heart y Flat Earth News. Su labor informativa ha sido reconocida con diversos galardones entre los que destacan el de Periodista del Año, concedido en 2000 por la prensa británica, o el Martha Gellhorn Prize.