I am currently reading the book 'Flat Earth News' by Nick Davies.
I find it amazing some of the material that I have come up across especially when it relates to the evaluation of material.
We have to be very careful with what is being published, especially with the lack of follow up or research. Journalists are under pressure to find information for their organisation and have it published as quickly as possible. If it often means relying merely on regurgitating press releases, not conduct interviews or research to undertake background but also not questioning the validity of information handed to them by agencies and informers.
Some of it is recycled stuff from the past, and all of a sudden the media picks on it because it's the talk of the day.
