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Topic History of: another fascinating piece by Richard Webster
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veritas www.richardwebster.net/jersey2.htm

Webster follows up his investigations of the Jersey child abuse scandal as he unpicks the shenanigans by the police and media in this almighty beat-up.

It's a long piece in which he answer Nick Davies, whose excellent book Flat Earth News picks apart the modern media.

Although Webster and Davies are critics of each other, they are basically on the same side. Webster gives a fascinating account of the origins of tabloid reporting accompanied by sex sensationalism-began ironically by the Guardian.

2 quotes worth noting :

[i]"As Dan Jacobson has written, in words which refer to the Old Testament prophets, but which might equally well be applied to W. T. Stead and the modern child protection movement,
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