Book description
Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism, John Simpson has
become not only one of the most recognisable and trusted British
personalities, but has transferred his skill to books with multiple
bestselling success. With his new book he turns his eye to how Great
Britain has been transformed by its free press down the years. He shows
how, while the press likes to pretend it's independent, they have
enjoyed the power they have over the events they report and have at
times exercised it irresponsibly. He examines how it changed the world
and changed itself over the course of the last hundred years, from the
creation of the Daily Mail and the first stokings of anti-German
sentiment in the years leading up to the First World War, to the Sun's
propping up of the Thatcher government, and beyond. In this
self-analysis from one of the pillars of modern journalism some
searching questions are asked, including whether the press can ever be
truly free and whether we would desire it to be so.
Always incisive, brilliantly readable and never shy of controversy,
Unreliable Sources
sees John Simpson at the height of his game as one of Britain's foremost
commentators. John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. He has
twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year. He has
also won three BAFTAs, including the Richard Dimbleby award in 1991 and
the News and Current Affairs award in 2000 for his coverage, with the
BBC News team, of the Kosovo conflict. He has written four volumes of
autobiography, Strange Places, Questionable People,
A Mad World, My Masters,
News from No Man’s Land
and, most recently, Not Quite World's End
, a childhood memoir, Days from a Different World
and The Wars Against Saddam.
