'...how much do we really understand about the accuracy of what we are told?' Photo: Photo: Richard Masoner / flickr CC.
Fraudcast News
Elizabeth Redfern reviews a book that questions the integrity of some contemporary journalism
by Elizabeth Redfern
4th July 2014
Press corruption is, sadly, a subject we’re now familiar with, from the press’s own coverage of the Leveson Inquiry and, more recently, the trial of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and others who – in what might become the longest criminal trial in English history – are charged with phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid. It would be nice to think that this is an unfortunate blip in an otherwise sparkling British press history. Certainly, I hadn’t take much notice of the inquiry or court case until I’d started to read Patrick Chalmers’ book, when some familiar words started to nag at me.
