I just watched the movie "Shattered Glass" about Stephen Glass and his massive journalistic fraud. I also read the fantastic Vanity Fair article the movie is based on (even better than the film). Can you suggest some books about other fraudulent journalists or major cons pulled on news outlets?
by nevermore363
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Not quite what you’re asking for, but adjacent: The Men Who Killed the News by Eric Beecher. It’s the ‘inside story’ of when Lachlan Murdoch sued a little Aussie news outlet, Crikey, for defamation over an article about Fox News and the Jan 6 Insurrection. Less about journalists being fraudulent, and more about the entire concept of the fourth estate being fraudulent.
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