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 Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel - Gordon Burn
Newest Review: ... a brand name) when the police made them suspects, but wouldn't you if you felt a foreign police force was trying to frame you ... more  ... because your highlighting their incompetence all around the world? Our only suspicions on this case are based on the information we are getting through the agenda ridden media, and not until a German journalist asked them if the McCann's if they were involved did the world let out a sigh of relief so we could argue the case from the other side of the fence. The world media loved that German journalist as they could now sell millions of paper on the case for the prosecution.
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Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel - Gordon Burn: The media gives us lots of images but few facts. (2233 words)
by - written on 06/07/08 (Very useful, 121 readings)
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About four years ago a wordy broadsheet sent anonymous text exerts from 10 Booker Prize and Orange Prize for Fiction winning books to Britain's supposedly top ten publishers. All but one rejected the text as not good enough. Clearly it's being known and connected and not talent that gets books noticed and published these days and its authors like Gordon Burn who benefit from that lazy ignorance. If this guy is one of Britain's best writers then I'm William Shakespeare! The dust-cover describes this book as the 'news as a novel', the author Gordon Burn attempting to weave major factual events from the British summer of 2007 into the loosest of stories - and ... Read the complete review
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