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SUMMARY:UK News Media: a hyper-critical view - Nick Davies
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:Nick Davies\, a well-known and award-winning investigative jou
 rnalist\, has recently published "Flat Earth News":http://www.flatearthnew
 s.net/\, a controversial and highly-critical analysis of the British news 
 media in which he argues that the business of truth has been "slowly subve
 rted by the mass production of ignorance".  The book examines national new
 s stories which\, Davies argues\, "turn out to be pseudo events manufactur
 ed by the PR industry and the global news stories which prove to be fictio
 n generated by a new machinery of international propaganda."  With the hel
 p of researchers from Cardiff University\, who ran a detailed analysis of 
 the contents and sources for our daily news\, Davies found that "most repo
 rters most of the time are not allowed to dig up stories or check their fa
 cts"\, leading him to describe UK journalism as "a profession corrupted at
  the core".  In the book\, he also presents a new model for understanding 
 news. \n\nWe have invited Nick Davies to present his critique to an academ
 ic audience.  We have also invited "John Kelly":http://voxford.blogspot.co
 m/\, a well-known _Washington Post_ columnist who is currently a Reuters F
 ellow at Oxford\, to comment on the issues from a non-UK perspective.  \n\
 nThe seminar will be chaired by Dr Phil Parvin of the Department of Social
  and Political Sciences\, whose research interests include the relationshi
 p between media and democratic institutions. 
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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