RSA Thursday - The State of the Fourth Estate

14th Feb 2008; 13:00

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In Flat Earth News, award-winning journalist Nick Davies exposes the reality of daily life in the Fleet Street news factory and makes a passionate appeal for a return to the first principles of truth-telling journalism.

From pseudo events manufactured by PR professionals to the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a new machinery of international propaganda, Davies reveals a world where consumers believe a mass of stories which, in truth, are as false as the idea that the Earth is flat.

With Nick Davies, award-winning journalist; Peter Wilby, columnist and commentator for the New Statesman, The Guardian and Observer; and Adrian Monck, award-winning broadcast journalist and head of Journalism and Publishing at City University.

Chair: Martin Kettle, columnist, The Guardian