In this explosive, controversial and timely book, an investigative journalist exposes the shocking corruption of today’s media.
When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street’s unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance.
He uncovers the story of the prestigious Sunday newspaper which allowed the CIA and MI6 to plant fiction in its columns; the newsroom which routinely rejects stories about black people; the respected paper that hired a fraudster to entrap senior political figures; the newspapers which support law and order while paying cash bribes
to bent detectives. Davies names names and exposes the national stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a new machinery of international propaganda.
With the help of researchers from Cardiff University, who ran a ground-breaking analysis of our daily news, Davies found that most reporters, most of the time, are not allowed to dig up stories or check their facts — a profession corrupted at the core. Finally, Davies presents a new model for understanding news.
Read all about it. The news will never look the same again.
so many teachers recommend this book to us, interesting content and critical reflection on UK media, I think everyone who pursue journalism should read this book..
评分[Updated 25 July, 2014] THere is a picture widely circulated on the Internet recently of a dog peddler in Guangxi Yulin who is said to be threatening to kill the dog if the dog lovers do not bid higher. Do you think it is true? My answer is I really don...
评分[Updated 25 July, 2014] THere is a picture widely circulated on the Internet recently of a dog peddler in Guangxi Yulin who is said to be threatening to kill the dog if the dog lovers do not bid higher. Do you think it is true? My answer is I really don...
评分[Updated 25 July, 2014] THere is a picture widely circulated on the Internet recently of a dog peddler in Guangxi Yulin who is said to be threatening to kill the dog if the dog lovers do not bid higher. Do you think it is true? My answer is I really don...
评分[Updated 25 July, 2014] THere is a picture widely circulated on the Internet recently of a dog peddler in Guangxi Yulin who is said to be threatening to kill the dog if the dog lovers do not bid higher. Do you think it is true? My answer is I really don...
从主题的处理深度来看,这本书的野心显然不止于表面的那个“话题”。它巧妙地将一个听起来很荒谬的中心论点,作为引线,实际探讨的是关于信息茧房的形成机制、大众认知的惰性,以及权威叙事是如何通过微妙的语言控制和信息过滤来维持其统治地位的。作者并没有直接批判“大众”的愚昧,而是将矛头对准了“信息传播的结构性缺陷”。他通过展示那些被主流媒体系统性忽略或扭曲的“异见声音”,来反向拷问读者:我们所坚信的“常识”,究竟是基于多少被刻意筛选过的事实构建起来的?这种反思性的深度,使得这本书超越了简单的“阴谋论”范畴,上升到了社会学和认知心理学的层面进行探讨。每一次当我想笑话某个离奇的观点时,作者总能立刻指出其背后隐藏的、在我们日常生活中同样存在的逻辑谬误或认知偏差,让人不禁后背发凉,因为那份谬误,可能就藏在我自己的思维习惯之中。
评分这本书的叙事节奏掌握得相当老道,它绝不急于抛出任何惊天动地的“爆料”,而是像一个经验丰富的说书人,总是在关键时刻戛然而止,或者用极其平淡的口吻描述着一些足以颠覆常识的事件。我注意到作者非常擅长利用“留白”来放大信息的冲击力。比如,对于某些核心的论点,他会用大段大段的背景描述和历史考据来铺陈,让你在被冗长的细节淹没时,几乎忘记了最初要寻找的那个“答案”是什么。但就在你快要失去耐心的时候,一个精妙的、看似无足轻重的小细节,却能瞬间将前面所有的铺垫串联起来,形成一个令人不寒而栗的闭环。这种写作技巧,让阅读体验充满了悬念和发现的乐趣,我甚至忍不住停下来,在脑海里回溯前面读到的所有内容,试图去重建作者的逻辑链条。这完全不是那种直接灌输观点的作品,它更像是在邀请读者共同参与一场智力上的“解谜游戏”,你必须时刻保持警惕,生怕错过任何一个隐藏的线索。
评分这本书的“可信度管理”策略堪称教科书级别。作者深知,如果想要让读者相信那些挑战主流的世界观,就不能采取单线条的“我是对的,你们都是错的”的姿态。相反,他展示了极高的自我怀疑和平衡感。在提出一个重磅论断后,他往往会立刻跟进一段看似是“反驳者”的尖锐提问,并且用同样严谨的逻辑去回应这些质疑,甚至有时候,他会留下一个“尚未解决”的矛盾点,让读者自己去权衡。这种“双线论证”的手法,极大地提高了文本的说服力。它营造出一种“我只是把所有证据摆在这里,结论由你自行判断”的姿态,让读者在潜意识里觉得,自己是经过了充分辩证后才得出某种结论的,而不是被强行洗脑的。这种高明的引导方式,使得这本书的阅读体验,变成了一种持续的、私密的智力辩论,让人读完后久久不能释怀,需要时间去消化和重新构建自己的认知地图。
评分语言风格的变化是这本书最让我感到惊讶的一点。在不同的章节,作者像是切换了多副面孔,这使得整本书读起来丝毫不会产生单调感。有时,你会遇到一段极其学术化、引用了大量晦涩术语的论述,那些句子结构复杂,用词精准到近乎冷酷,仿佛出自一位沉浸在象牙塔多年的研究者之手。然而,紧接着,你可能会被一段充满市井气息、略带粗俗和俚语的“民间访谈”所吸引,那段文字充满生命力和未经修饰的情感,接地气到能让你闻到烟火味。更奇特的是,书中还穿插了一些像是官方报告或政府文件片段的节选,那部分文字则刻意写得极其官僚和冗长,充满了套话和模棱两可的表述,读起来令人昏昏欲睡,但恰恰是这种无聊,反衬出其他信息的“真实”与“活力”。这种多重音轨式的叙事,成功地构建了一个庞大而复杂的叙事生态系统,让人相信,作者是深入到社会的各个角落进行观察和记录的。
评分这本书的封面设计真是一绝,那种粗粝的纸张质感,配上略显斑驳的油墨印刷字体,一下子就把人拉回到了一个信息闭塞、信息传递方式原始的时代。我猜想,这或许是作者有意为之,意在模仿那些早期的、未经雕琢的“小报”风格,让人在阅读之前就先建立起一种“这是非主流、边缘化信息”的心理预期。内页的排版也颇具匠心,很多地方采用了那种老式印刷品的错位和不齐整,偶尔还会夹杂着一些像是手写批注的痕迹,虽然我知道这很可能是数字模拟出来的效果,但沉浸感依然很强。我特别欣赏它在视觉上传达的“秘密档案”或“地下刊物”的氛围,仿佛我手里捧着的不是一本正式出版物,而是一份刚从某个秘密角落里搜集来的珍贵手稿。这种视觉上的欺骗性,为接下来文字内容的解读设置了一个非常有趣的陷阱,让人忍不住想去探究,到底是什么样的“新闻”需要用如此隐晦的方式呈现。它不仅仅是一本书,更像是一个精心布置的场景装置,让你在翻开第一页之前,就已经被它的美学深深吸引。
评分叔推荐的书就是犀利啊.
评分Dark side of modern journalism. This is pre-SNS era.
评分Dark side of modern journalism. This is pre-SNS era.
评分十年之后很多观点已经不再触目惊心。十年后新闻业的堕落应该是有过之而无不及了。
评分Dark side of modern journalism. This is pre-SNS era.
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