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 Flat Earth News - Nick Davies
 Flat Earth News - Nick Davies ... VintageNewest Review: ... copy; 20% contain clear elements of that; and only 12% are wholly generated by the reporters. 70% of the news stories are not ... more ... fact checked at all.
The Internet is not any better: news websites run by media firms source 50% of their stories from Associated Press and Reuters. On a random day, Google News offered 14,000 stories which were actually retelling just 24 events.
However tempting it is to see a propaganda conspiracy at work, Davies has a simpler, and in a way more worrying and more sinister mechanism: that of commercial, money-making priorities.
In the last thirty or so years, less and less reporters (especially local ones, work...more |
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Flat Earth News - Nick Davies: Reader Beware (1080 words)
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Do you remember a Y2K bug? When the world's computer systems were to melt down in an Armageddon of vital services failure and possible nuclear accidents? The Y2K panic is a great example of flat-Earth news: something that gets passed on in the media chain from those unsure to those who might have a vested interest in maintaining it as fact to those who are completely ignorant, and in the process gets bigger and bigger and - almost accidentally - assumes a status of orthodox, accepted truth. Such developments, though, although commonplace in science and technology news and frequently behind moral and health panics, are only the beginning of the ... Read the complete review
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