- 311 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Combining his expertise as a national security correspondent and research academic, Paul Lashmar reveals how and why the media became more critical in its reporting of the Secret State. He explores a series of major case studies including Snowden, WikiLeaks, Spycatcher, rendition and torture, and MI5's vetting of the BBC – most of which he reported on as they happened. He discusses the issues that news coverage raises for democracy and gives you a deeper understanding of how intelligence and the media function, interact and fit into structures of power and knowledge.
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Table of contents
- Spies, Spin and the Fourth Estate
- Contents
- Preface
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Introduction
- 1 Setting the Scene
- 2 The Great War
- 3 The Interwar Years and the Dark Arts
- 4 The Second World War
- 5 The ‘Era of Trust’
- 6 Cold War Warriors
- 7 Agitprop
- 8 1968 and All That
- 9 1975: The Year of Intelligence
- 10 The Thatcher Years
- 11 Spycatcher
- 12 The Wall Comes Down
- 13 The ‘War on Terror’
- 14 Citizenfour
- 15 Lives at Risk
- 16 Ostriches, Cheerleaders, Lemonsuckers and Guardians
- 17 Reflections on Forty Years of Spy Watching
- REFERENCES
- INDEX