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Stumbling Over Truth Kevin Marsh

Stumbling Over Truth By Kevin Marsh

Stumbling Over Truth by Kevin Marsh


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Summary

The true story of the events that shook the BBC to its core and caused it to change radically, by the man who sat on the inside.

Stumbling Over Truth Summary

Stumbling Over Truth by Kevin Marsh

The Hutton Report in 2004 created today's BBC. It cost the corporation its Chairman and Director General and ushered in an age of self-doubt and caution. It was also the end of the most extraordinary experiment in news management Britain has ever seen, the decade of Alastair Campbell - the Blair courtier who delivered new Labour's mission to 'create the truth'. But Lord Hutton condemned the BBC and its journalism without hearing a single word from the man who put the 'sexed-up dossier' story on air - Today editor Kevin Marsh. Had he done so his conclusions would have been very different. Now outside the BBC, Marsh can tell for the first time the inside story of Andrew Gilligan's infamous 0607 broadcast on the Today programme. He explains how he was certain the story was true, but also how Gilligan's 'flawed reporting' fatally damaged the BBC's case. And he tells of his growing disillusion with the British media's ability and appetite for holding power to account - or even telling the truth. This is an important book for anyone who wants to understand the toe-to-toe confrontations between Tony Blair's government and the BBC, and the fight to keep BBC journalism independent in the face of unprecedented government pressure.

About Kevin Marsh

KEVIN MARSH was editor of the Today programme from 2002 to 2006. He lives in London.

Additional information

GOR005147384
9781849541527
1849541523
Stumbling Over Truth by Kevin Marsh
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Biteback Publishing
20120919
352
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