Tabloid Terror: War, Culture, and Geopolitics

From: RUSI Journal | Date: December 1, 2007| Author: Bolt, Neville | Copyright information

Tabloid Terror: War, Culture, and Geopolitics By François Debrix £19.99,193 pages Routledge, 2007 ISBN: 0415772915

Soon after being fired as editor of Britain's tabloid Daily Mirror, for publishing hoax photos of members of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment abusing Iraqi PoWs, Piers Morgan described journalism as 'full of lying, cheating, drunken, cocaine-sniffing, unethical people' before musing 'it's a wonderful profession'. If only it were that simple. Alarmingly, Francois Debrix's ...

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