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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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