Titel: The War on Journalism: Media Moguls, Whistleblowers and the Price of Freedom
Verlag: William Heinemann Australia
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0857986848
ISBN-13: 9780857986849
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

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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.

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Andrew Fowler is an award-winning investigative journalist and a contributing reporter for ABC&;s Foreign Correspondent and Four Corners programs. He has been chief of staff and acting foreign editor of the Australian newspaper and a reporter with SBS Dateline and Channel 7, as well as heading up the ABC&;s Investigative Unit. He is the author of The Most Dangerous Man in the World.

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