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Spies, Spin and the Fourth Estate: British Intelligence and the Media

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Combining his expertise as a national security correspondent and research academic, Paul Lashmar reveals how and why the media became more critical in its reporting of the Secret State. He explores a series of major case studies including Snowden, WikiLeaks, Spycatcher, rendition and torture, and MI5's vetting of the BBC - most of which he reported on as they happened. He discusses the issues that news coverage raises for democracy and gives you a deeper understanding of how intelligence and the media function, interact and fit into structures of power and knowledge.

Author(s): Paul Lashmar
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2020

Language: English
Pages: 256
City: Edinburgh

Spies, Spin and the Fourth Estate
Contents
Preface
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction
1 Setting the Scene
2 The Great War
3 The Interwar Years and the Dark Arts
4 The Second World War
5 The ‘Era of Trust’
6 Cold War Warriors
7 Agitprop
8 1968 and All That
9 1975: The Year of Intelligence
10 The Thatcher Years
11 Spycatcher
12 The Wall Comes Down 
13 The ‘War on Terror’
14 Citizenfour
15 Lives at Risk
16 Ostriches, Cheerleaders, Lemonsuckers and Guardians
17 Reflections on Forty Years of Spy Watching
REFERENCES
INDEX