Spies, Spin and the Fourth Estate : : British Intelligence and the Media / / Paul Lashmar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Lashmar, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; Introduction --; ONE Setting the Scene --; TWO The Great War --; THREE The Interwar Years and the Dark Arts --; FOUR The Second World War --; FIVE The ‘Era of Trust’ --; SIX Cold War Warriors --; SEVEN Agitprop --; EIGHT 1968 and All That --; NINE 1975: The Year of Intelligence --; TEN The Thatcher Years --; ELEVEN Spycatcher --; TWELVE The Wall Comes Down --; THIRTEEN The ‘War on Terror’ --; FOURTEEN Citizenfour --; FIFTEEN Lives at Risk --; SIXTEEN Ostriches, Cheerleaders, Lemonsuckers and Guardians --; SEVENTEEN Reflections on Forty Years of Spy Watching --; REFERENCES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474443098; 9783110780413
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474443098
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paul Lashmar.

A former national security correspondent’s groundbreaking account of the turbulent relationship between British Intelligence and the media Written by an award-winning investigative journalist and a research academic, who previously worked at The Observer, The Independent, World in Action, the BBC and Channel 4 Draws on the author's many publications on national security and hundreds of interviews with key players undertaken during his four decades as a journalistDevelops a theoretical framework that draws on concepts from British cultural studies, post-Frankfurt School philosophy (Bourdieu, Foucault and Habermas), political theory and Intelligence StudiesAn extremely timely book given the Snowden affair and growing concerns that we are ‘sleepwalking’ into becoming a mass surveillance societyCombining 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.