Reddit reviews Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media

> If you want honest news, subscribe to the New York Times.

That made me laugh. The same game you engage in was started over a hundred years ago with published newspapers.

There is no such thing as honest news.

For more information, consult Flat Earth News by the same guy who uncovered and pushed the Murdoch press phone hacking scandal when no-one else would touch it.

This may seem off topic but Flat Earth News; an expose into modern news reporting has a great chapter about the War on Drugs within the global media. From what I can remember (I read this 3 summers ago) it contextualises when and why heroin became illegal in the UK.

Flat Earth News by Nick Davies. Opened my eyes to the broken state of the global media.

I saw this picture in a post in pics about the Romney/Obama divide. I'm not American, but this seems to me to be a form of brainwashing. It implies you're either with us or against us. There is no middle ground for you. I'm sure this kind of poster wouldn't go up in NY or California.

Brainwashing isn't really about strapping you to an electrode machine and shocking you into submission. The real messages that are being sent are far more subtle than that and come from your TV, radio and the internet. Everyone operates with an agenda. The news corporations are there to make a profit. They provide the news that sells. They tell the people what they want to hear. There is a great book called Flat Earth News which goes into great detail about the news is served to largely ignorant public.

Farsisr9k, Yes I do believe that the public shares the blame with the media for turning the “free press” into a cess pit of salacious idiocy. I implore you and anyone who is interested in journalism today to read Flat Earth News by Nick Davies (no affiliation to myself, just a bloody though provoking read  ). By asking tabloid junkies, “true crime” readers and all manner of other CSI watchers to share a smidgeon of the blame I am in no way apologising for Murdoch. He and his followers have done as much lasting damage to the decency of one human being to another as Hitler and the Nazis ever did.
What I was getting at is that the News now markets murder and other horrific events at us like an entertainment product; but we can chose to be entertained by it of not. Please allow yourself to imagine a world where Murdoch and Co don’t “saturate” you and everyone else with their corrupt commercial imperatives… Its not difficult if you try :-)

This story isn't new at all. In fact, it's covered in this rather fine book book by journalist Nick Davies, whose efforts to expose the workings of the Murdoch press and expose the failings of journalism in general (with a focus on British journalism) should be rewarded by everyone buying this book.

Seriously. Do it now.