Title: Flat Earth News
Author: Davies, Nick
Published by: Vintage
Year: 2009
First published: Chatto & Windus, 2008
Date reviewed: 02.09
ISBN: 9780099512684

I’d like to review this book but the cover blurbs say it all:

• ‘An award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media’ – Front cover.
• ‘Powerful and timely . . his analysis is fair, meticulously researched and fascinating’ – The Observer.
• ‘If you read newspapers, you must read this book’ – John Humphreys.
• ‘Flat Earth News is a genuinely important book, one which is likely to change, permanently, the way anyone who reads it looks at the British newspaper industry’ – London Review of Books.

This is a compelling, exhaustively researched, essential and profoundly depressing book. Read it and free up all the time you spend watching the news on TV or reading newspapers, because you’ll realise that if you want to know what’s really happening in the world you’re wasting your time.

Or just read it and weep.