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Topic History of: The first intelligent commentary - from two months ago...
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Too Tough For JK? |
"Good Times, Bad Times" by Harold Evans Times editor 1973-81, resigned in disgust at Rupert Murdoch.
Reviews:
" This is the record of a journalist who told of Thalidomide victims,the Kim Philby story & published the Crossman diaries. He also gives insights into Rupert Murdoch & Margaret Thatcher. It is an enthralling & astonishing story."
" I had always loved/admired Harold Evans, admired his work with the London Sunday Times Insight team, and found this account of his years at the ST and at the Times riveting at the time. Evans was editor of the year in 1973 after the ST ran a series of articles on Thalidomide and triumphed over the suppression efforts of the House of Lords. He appealed to the European Court of Human Rights and succeeded. He edited the ST from 1967 and The Times from 1981-1982, ultimately resigning one year after Rupert Murdoch bought the paper. "
" This is the inside scoop by a great storyteller and covers his most celebrated investigations (Kim Philby's unveiling as a Soviet spy, etc.) and his face-off with Murdoch. Also, Margaret Thatcher's role in allowing Murdoch's entry into the hallowed halls at Gray's Inn Road. The book smells of newsprint and Fleet Street and London and was to me irresistible. Now, in light of recent events involving Murdoch it seems prescient and time to pull it off the shelves and revisit the start of it all. Bottom line, while I honestly don't remember when I read this book I do remember that it is just an awfully good read."
Investigative journalist Nick Davies chose to discuss Harold Evans's 'Good Times, Bad Times' , on FiveBooks as one of the top five on his subject - Investigative Journalism, saying that:
“ Harry Evans was a really wonderful editor - and a fantastic journalist. If you asked British journalists today who they think is the best journalist of all time I imagine a large proportion would say Harry Evans, straight off. The reason he was so good was that he understood reporting, which many editors don’t, and he really loved reporting, which many editors don’t. He would never back away from a fight.”
" The explosive inside story of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's battle to buy the classic London paper The Times. Written by the amazing Harold Evans who became the Editor of the paper.
Brilliant. "
www.goodreads.com/book/show/1240858.Good_Times_Bad_Times |
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JK2006 |
That's why you need to be a subscriber - the Murdoch firewall. |
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Jim |
Give us the first two paragraphs? |
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JK2006 |
If you're a subscriber, read it in The Times... the first of (now) many intelligent and open minded opinion pieces. I congratulated him and he replied saying he'd long been uneasy about my own case.
www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnist...n/article3628206.ece |
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