Unreliable Sources: How the 20th Century was Reported

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John Simpson turns his eye to how Great Britain has been transformed by its free press down the years. He shows how, while the press likes to pretend it's independent, it has enjoyed the power it has over the events it reports and has at times exercised it irresponsibly.

About the author (2011)

John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year and won countless other major television awards. He has written several books, including five volumes of autobiography, Strange Places, Questionable People, A Mad World, My Masters, News from No Man's Land and Not Quite World's End and a childhood memoir, Days from a Different World. The Wars Against Saddam, his account of the West's relationship with Iraq and his two decades reporting on that relationship encompassing two Gulf Wars and the fall of Saddam Hussein, and Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century Was Reported are also published by Pan Macmillan. He lives in London with his South African wife, Dee, and their son, Rafe.

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