Issue No.
60
September 2012
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| Welcome to September’s review of books |
 Tim Black
It is well over a year since the phone-hacking scandal came to a head with the closure of Britain's best-selling Sunday newspaper, the News of the World. Since then, with the Leveson Inquiry to the fore, malpractice at this one newspaper has served as a pretext to lay into the 'ethics and culture' of the press as a whole. In short, press freedom itself has come under sustained assault. And more worryingly, even journalists and editors themselves have seemed unwilling to mount a defence, free of caveats. As Mick Hume explains in detail in this month's spiked review of books: 'It was this formation of a new crusade to sanitise the press that prompted me to write my new book, There is No Such Thing as a Free Press ...and we need one more than ever.' We also have Daniel Ben-Ami on the morality of the market; Patrick Hayes on the middle-England fantasy world of Harry Potter-author JK Rowling; Pierre Desrochers on the fiftieth anniversary of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring; and much more. [Cover illustration by Jan Bowman.] |
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