Just arrived from Amazon, a parcel containing, amonsgt other things, Nick Davies’ new book Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media. I read an excerpt in Private Eye last week and immediately had to have it. Expect me to surface later today even more jaded and cynical.
But it does strike me as rather odd that a book purporting to be an expose of the mendacity, greed and incompetence of the journalistic establishment should have quite so many approving blurbs from that very establishment on the back.
UPDATE: You can read an excerpt on the book’s website, here.
