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PublisherPenguin Random House

ISBN-100857986848

ISBN-139780857986849

eBay Product ID (ePID)211840113

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Number of Pages368 Pages

Publication NameWar on Journalism : Media Moguls, Whistleblowers and the Price of Freedom

LanguageEnglish

SubjectMedia Studies, Journalism, Political Process / Political Advocacy, Censorship

Publication Year2015

TypeTextbook

AuthorAndrew Fowler

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines

FormatUk-Trade Paper

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight15 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal070.4

SynopsisRacked by public distrust, cowed by government surveillance and powerful corporations, the mainstream media is in crisis. Newspapers which flourished for centuries and TV networks that once ruled the world are failing. Andrew Fowler's The War on Journalism tells how the media helped write its own epitaph. Drawing on personal interviews and his background in investigative journalism, Fowler traces the decline of the culture of truthbringing. It's a tale of sackings, cutbacks and self-censoring editors, deals, threats and government standover tactics. Alongside tabloids like the News of the World , notorious for phone hacking, giants like the BBC, Australia's ABC, The Washington Post and The New York Times , The Guardian and Le Monde come under fire. When first WikiLeaks and then Edward Snowden blew the whistle, they did more than reveal explosive secrets- they undermined establishment, or insider, media - where governments 'leaked' information to favoured reporters in return for sympathetic coverage. Along with lawyer-turned-gonzo-journalist Glenn Greenwald, these outsiders challenged everyone from The Guardian on the left to Rupert Murdoch's global media empire on the right. The establishment fought back with draconian laws to silence the new journalism. From the UK to the US to Australia, governments harass journalists, threatening to jail both whistleblowers and those who publish their leaks. Staying one move ahead of post-9/11 intelligence agencies is fraught. Every cell phone is a mobile tracking device. The public's right to know is a battleground. At stake are the kind of journalism that survives and the kind of world in which we will live- democratic or dominated by executive government, unchallenged and unaccountable, spying on its own citizens and producing fraudulent arguments to fight horrific wars. The internet - which promised people easy access to information and each other - is now being used to produce a dark future. This is a defining moment, not just for journalism but for us all., The War on Journalism is a harrowing story of megalomaniac press barons, conspiracies, sackings, cutbacks, and self-censoring journalists, cowed by what legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh called "chicken shit editors." When first Chelsea Manning and then Edward Snowden blew the whistle, they did more than reveal extraordinary secrets; they struck the first solid blows against centuries old traditions, where journalism was played by agreed rules. Governments "leaked" secret information to their favorite journalists in return for sympathetic coverage. Now racked by public distrust, the cash-starved mainstream media is struggling to survive. Newspapers which flourished for hundreds of years and TV networks that once ruled the world are in serious decline. Andrew Fowler gives the inside story on how and why the media helped write its own epitaph. Fowler, an investigate reporter with Australia's prestigious Four Corners documentary program for almost 20 years, and author of the international best seller The Most Dangerous Man in the World , the revelatory story of Julian Assange and the rise of WikiLeaks, has pieced together the extraordinary story on the decline of mainstream journalism. It's not just the notorious tabloids like Rupert Murdoch's News of the World , infamous for its phone hacking crimes, which have caused the trouble. The BBC, Australia's ABC, the Washington Post , the New York Times , and the Guardian , are also in the firing line. Now the establishment is fighting back with draconian laws to silence the new journalism. From the UK to the US to Australia, governments are harassing journalists, threatening to jail both the whistleblowers and those who publish their leaks. A battle, shrouded in the cloak of national security, pitting the public's right to know against the powerful interests of those who want business as usual, it's a stark choice: an increasingly democratic world, or one dominated by executive government, often unchallenged and unaccountable, spying on its own citizens and producing fraudulent arguments to fight horrific wars. Just who wins this information battle will not only define the kind of journalism that survives, but also the kind of world we will all live in.

LC Classification NumberPN4725.F55 2016