BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//talks.cam.ac.uk//v3//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
CATEGORIES:Wolfson Press Fellowship
SUMMARY:UK News Media: a hyper-critical view - Nick Davies
DTSTART:20080519T190000Z
DTEND:20080519T203000Z
UID:TALK12155AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/12155
DESCRIPTION:Nick Davies\, a well-known and award-winning inves
 tigative journalist\, has recently published "Flat
  Earth News":http://www.flatearthnews.net/\, a con
 troversial and highly-critical analysis of the Bri
 tish news media in which he argues that the busine
 ss of truth has been "slowly subverted by the mass
  production of ignorance".  The book examines nati
 onal news stories which\, Davies argues\, "turn ou
 t to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR indus
 try and the global news stories which prove to be 
 fiction generated by a new machinery of internatio
 nal propaganda."  With the help of researchers fro
 m Cardiff University\, who ran a detailed analysis
  of the contents and sources for our daily news\, 
 Davies found that "most reporters most of the time
  are not allowed to dig up stories or check their 
 facts"\, leading him to describe UK journalism as 
 "a profession corrupted at the core".  In the book
 \, he also presents a new model for understanding 
 news. \n\nWe have invited Nick Davies to present h
 is critique to an academic audience.  We have also
  invited "John Kelly":http://voxford.blogspot.com/
 \, a well-known _Washington Post_ columnist who is
  currently a Reuters Fellow at Oxford\, to comment
  on the issues from a non-UK perspective.  \n\nThe
  seminar will be chaired by Dr Phil Parvin of the 
 Department of Social and Political Sciences\, whos
 e research interests include the relationship betw
 een media and democratic institutions. 
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR