‘There’s a whole set of filters news has to go through.’ ibid. David Frost
He [Cecil King] began to poison the corrupt relationship between the press, politics and the city of London. Out of it would become a paranoia. ibid.
The Labour government were descending into paranoia. ibid.
The Sun: its new owner Rupert Murdoch doubled its circulation in a hundred days. ibid.
What united them was a patrician vision. ibid.
By the mid ’80s the left in Britain was on its knees. Thatcher was riding high having swept to power for a second term. The miners had been defeated after a year-long strike. Lefties III: A Lot of Balls, BBC 2006
Faced with a tabloid press as right-wing as the government, committed left-wingers began to wonder whether they could rally support for their cause if only they could publish their own newspaper. ibid.
The News on Sunday was the extreme left’s first attempt to enter mainstream public life. ibid.
One of the most high-profile and violent industrial disputes of the mid ’80s was Wapping. Rupert Murdoch had sacked 5,000 of his workers and moved production of the Sun, The Times & The Sunday Times to a new high-tech plant in Wapping, East London. ibid.
Having walked out, Pilger went public and penned a series of articles attacking the paper. ibid.
‘It wasn’t even left-wing: that was the betrayal.’ ibid. Pilger
In the absence of a big topical story the paper led with an article about a man in Brazil who was selling his kidney. ibid.
‘Unexciting and pretty bland.’ ibid. employee
It’s been my experience that people lie, a lot of people lie, in Washington; they have no reverence for the truth. The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee, Bradlee, Sky Atlantic 2018
Its fast-talking chain-smoking cocky executive editor. ibid. commentator
This Ben Bradlee is a tough mean cynic. ibid. Kissinger
At the Post I was given an assignment to the municipal court. ibid. Bradlee
We were up against a massive cover-up orchestrated by the White House. ibid.
And one of the first orders of business in the second term was retaliation against the Post. ibid.
Jimmy’s World: 8-Year-Old Heroin Addict Lives For a Fix. ibid. Washington Post article Janet Cooke, Pulitzer Prize fabricated story 1981
Never get discouraged with how hard it is to find the truth. ibid.
I’m with the Sunday Sport now. Political correspondent. The New Statesman s2e7: Piers of the Realm, journalist to B’stard, ITV 1989
The United States as the world knows will never start a war. The Post ***** 2017 starring Meryl Streep & Tom Hanks & Sarah Paulson & Bob Odenkirk & Tracy Letts & Bradley Whitford & Bruce Greenwood & Matthew Rhys & Alison Brie & Carrie Coon & Jesse Plemons et al, director Steven Spielberg, Kennedy
We can’t let an administration dictate our coverage. ibid. Ben
What is it you think we do here for a living, kid? ibid.
Vietnam Archive: Pentagon Study Traces 3 Decades of Growing US Involvement. ibid. Sheehan Times article
We got over 100 pages of the McNamara study here. ibid. journalist
They lied to Congress and they lied to the public. ibid. leak
If we don’t hold them accountable, my God, who will? ibid. Ben
This is an historic fight. If they [Times] lose, we lose. ibid.
We are a four-person investigative team … We keep our work confidential. Spotlight 2015 starring Mark Ruffalo & Michael Keaton & Rachel McAdams & Liev Schreiber & John Slattery & Brian d’Arcy James & Stanley Tucci & Gene Amoroso & James Sheridan & Billy Crudup & Richard Jenkins et al, director Tom McCarthy
Apparently, this priest molested kids at six different parishes over the last thirty years and the attorney for the victims … says Cardinal Law found out about it fifteen years ago and did nothing. ibid. Baron meets staff
Twenty grand for molesting a child? ibid. Sacha
This guy was shuffled around from parish to parish … There’s a pattern. ibid. Rezendes
How do you say no to God, right? You see, it’s important to understand this is not only physical abuse, it’s spiritual abuse too. ibid.
This is not just Boston, it’s the whole country … I know thirteen [priests] here in Boston. ibid. victim
My estimate suggests 6% act out sexually with minors. 6% of all priests. ibid. researcher
87 priests in Boston. ibid. Rezendes
We’ve got two stories here: we’ve got a story about degenerate clergy and we’ve got a story about a bunch of lawyers turning child abuse into a cottage industry. ibid. Robinson
Show me this was systemic, that it came from the top down. ibid. Baron
Church allowed abuse by priest for years. ibid. newspaper headline
Over the course of 2002, the Spotlight team published close to 600 stories about the scandal. 249 priests and brothers were publicly accused of sexual abuse within the Boston Archdiocese. The number of survivors in Boston is estimated to be well over 1,000. In December 2002 Cardinal Law resigned from the Boston Archdiocese. He was reassigned to the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiori in Rome, one of the highest ranking Roman catholic churches in the world. ibid. captions
In the first year of Trump’s presidency, The New York Times newspaper opened its doors to cameras. This is the story behind the headlines. Storyville: Reporting Trump’s First Year: The Fourth Estate I, BBC 2018
We knew we were about to encounter totally unorthodox administration. ibid. Mark Mazzetti, NYT Washington investigative editor
Trump Aides Spoke to Russian Intelligence: Intercepted Calls Show Contact During 2016, Officials Say by Michael S Schmidt & Mark Mazzetti. ibid. headline
F.B.I. Sees No Evidence of Trump Wiretap. ibid.
President Trump’s decision to fire FBI director James Comey is now under intense scrutiny. Storyville: Reporting Trump’s First Year: The Fourth Estate II, press report, caption
‘Not only is the Trump administration rolling back lots of environmental rules but it is also changing the way that it enforces the rules.’ ibid. reporter
Charlottesville: 24 hours later, one woman is dead and 35 people are injured. Storyville: Reporting Trump’s First Year: The Fourth Estate III, caption
‘The knives are out for Steve Bannon.’ ibid. news report
‘You would think they’d [media] want to make our country great again. And I honestly believe they don’t. These are sick people.’ ibid. Trump
Defend DACA [placard] … ‘No justice, no peace’ [crowd chant]. ibid.
‘These stories are not just about whether or not the president had affairs, they’re about whether or not he lied, they’re about whether or not he and the people around him engineered a cover up.’ Storyville: Reporting Trump’s First Year: The Fourth Estate IV, editor
Less than a year into Trump’s presidency, allegations of sexual misconduct and links to Russia continue to dominate the news. ibid.
But know this: Zoe Barnes: Twitter, Blogs, enriched media … They aren’t the foundation this paper was built on and they aren’t what’ll keep it alive. We have a core readership that thirsts for hard news. House of Cards US s1e5: Chapter 5, Tom to owner, Netflix 2013
We don’t write any more. We come up with feed for the trough. House of Cards US s6e3: Chapter 68, editor Washington Herald
On September 17th 1903 the Daily Telegram shared a shared story with its readers in Clarksburg, West Virginia. A dispute over a pet dog between two immigrant miners had led to a tragedy: it was one of the miners who took the bullet. Ian Hislop’s Fake News, BBC 2019
What motivates fake news? From propaganda and paranoia to profit and politics. ibid.