Truthteller: An Investigative Reporter's Journey Through the World of Truth Prevention, Fake News and Conspiracy Theories

ISBN-13: 9781925335897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 253 str.

Stephen Davis

Opis

Uses exclusive documents and interviews from the CIA, Pentagon, MI6, NSA and British and American special forces to cast a light on deniable operations and government lies.Reveals inside information on how journalism works - dealing with freedom of information and injunctions, confidential sources and expert and eyewitness reports and how to separate truth from lies.An essential guide for understanding the modern media world - for teachers, students and concerned citizens who want to know the facts, not fake news and conspiracy theories.Tells how Vladimir Putin and Western intelligence covered up a mass murder. There is a war on truth and the liars are winning. Truthteller is an essential guide to how governments and corporations cover up murder, corruption and catastrophe. It's for teachers, students and concerned citizens who want to know the facts not fake news.

Recenzje

"Investigative journalist, Stephen Davis, raises new questions about the disappearance of Sydney man Richard Sajko, one of the city's toughest cold cases." Daily Telegraph

Spis treści

Introduction: A toolbox for lies and deception
1. From the toolbox: The art of character assassination
The strange journey of Richard Tomlinson

2. From the toolbox: Shoot the messengers
If a forest is destroyed and no one is there to see it, does anyone care?

3. From the toolbox: Our conspiracy theories are better than yours
The Estonia mystery: Spies, smugglers, secret packages and Putin

4. From the toolbox: Delay, delay, delay until everyone gets bored
A murder confession is ignored

5. From the toolbox: Create your own reality
State-sponsored stories and other distractions

6. From the toolbox: Manufacture another truth
The human shields - how a cover-up was covered up

7. From the toolbox: The value of distance
An Antarctic rescue and the death of a scientist

8. From the toolbox: Official secrets and other means of suppression
How to avoid a government stopping your book being published

9. From the toolbox: Behind closed doors
Making lots of people angry in the world's friendliest country

10. A different tool: Happy endings, deception practised by journalists and other good people
Misleading the world's children

11. The assault on truth: Where to from here?

O autorze

Stephen Davis has been on the frontlines of journalism for three decades as an investigative reporter in TV, magazines and newspapers. He has reported from the rainforests of Brazil to the icy wastes of Antarctica, from London to Los Angeles, from the Middle East to Russia.