Just ordered the Nick Davies book, Flat Earth News. 
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Just ordered the Nick Davies book, Flat Earth News.
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It’s an excellent book, but quite depressing to see laid bare just how terrible much of our media is.
Flat Earth News is a good read, but in the end feels a tad empty and pointless: journalists in quite often lazy scandal!
Who knew?
I’m not sure Davies actually says journalists are lazy – almost the opposite, that they are under so much pressure to churn out material quickly that they just don’t have time to do a better job.
It’s a good book, but there’s a tendency for people to read it and assume that every journalist spends every hour just re-writing press releases or stories from other sources, which is not the case.
It also warns that the increasing importance of the internet as a method of distributing news has made the problem worse.
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