In this sweeping global survey one of Britain's most distinguished journalists & media commentators analyses for the first time the state of journalism worldwide as it enters the post-truth age In this sweeping global survey one of Britain's most distinguished journalists & media commentators analyses for the first time the state of journalism worldwide as it enters the post-truth age From the decline of the newspaper in the West & the simultaneous threats posed by fake news & President Trump to the part that Facebook & Twitter played in the Arab revolts & the radical openness stimulated by Wiki Leaks & from the vast political power of Rupert Murdoch's News International & the merger of television & politics in Italy to the booming raucous & sometimes corrupt Indian media & the growing self-confidence of African journalism John Lloyd examines the technological shifts the political changes & the market transformations through which journalism is currently passing The Power & the Story offers a fascinating insight into a trade that has claimed the right to hold power to account & the duty to make the significant interesting
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