This is a great book by an award winning investigate journalist, Nick Davies in the UK.
As seen in the review by Mary Riddell at The Guardian.
"Davies unmuzzled deplores the rise of 'churnalism'; the quick-turnover dross peddled by hacks less scrupulous or fortunate than him. Costs are being cut and standards eroded by greedy proprietors. Hidden persuaders are manipulating truth. At its worst, the modern newsroom is a place of bungs and bribes, whose occupants forage illicitly for scoops in databases and dustbins. Newspapers hold others to account while hushing up their own unsavoury methods. Self-regulation does not always offer fair (or any) redress to citizens who have had lies written about them. Stories are often pompous, biased or plain wrong. Some close scrutiny is not only legitimate: it is overdue."
It all sounds a bit gloomy, but is not disimilar to many of hte commments we have received from other interviewees about the current state of journalism and the operations at the mass media publiscations.
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