RSA Thursday: The State of the Fourth Estate February 14, 2008
London, England
"In Flat Earth News (Chatto & Windus), award-winning journalist Nick Davies exposes the reality of daily life in the Fleet Street news factory and makes a passionate appeal for a return to the first principles of truth-telling journalism.
From pseudo events manufactured by the PR to the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a new machinery of international propaganda, Davies reveals a world where consumers believe a mass of stories which, in truth, are as false as the idea that the Earth is flat.
Join Nick Davies at the RSA in conversation with Peter Wilby, columnist and commentator for the New Statesman, Guardian and Observer and Adrian Monck, award-winning broadcast journalist and Head of Journalism and Publishing at City University."
Places are free and open to all but advanced booking is recommended.
Official Website: http://www.thersa.org/events/detail.asp?eventID=2483
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