Scoop
Book description
Evelyn Waugh's brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Alexander Waugh
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of The Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has…
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Scoop is, as the title promises, an incisive look at the absurdity of tabloid journalism and how it may do more damage than good. Written in 1938, it's never been more pertinent than today, with a mass media unable or unwilling to call out the fundamental challenges we face, instead fighting for ratings and holding up our collective intellectual adherence to the status quo. He does so with great wit and a penchant for absurdity. Can't think of a better book about the vacuity of mainstream reporting.
A savage counterpoint to Pyle’s brave frontline reporting. The English novelist made two trips to the Ethiopia to cover the war launched by Mussolini in 1935. While in Africa, Waugh complained bitterly about a rival reporter who “never set foot in Abyssinia . . . he sits in his hotel describing an entirely imaginary campaign.” And in this satire, he gave savage voice to this incendiary allegation, describing a group of reporters who spent the bulk of their time far from the front, writing stories based on either misleading briefings by local propaganda chiefs or ingenious inventions that fit the…
From Steven's list on understand WW2.
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