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Surviving the Press-Gang: 70 Crazy Years in Journalism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min
From humble junior reporter on the Luton News to globe-trotting feature writer for the Daily Mail and a sometime television executive - this is Leslie Watkins - Les to his friends - reporting the news over 70 years. He tells of Fleet Street in its heyday revealing what went on inside the newspaper world, of scoop after scoop, fake news, murder, and political corruption. Honest, humorous, surprising, and sometimes tragic his journalist's eye view of the world, of breaking news, drink fuelled editorial feuds, and dirty tricks lifts the lid on journalism's golden age.Revealed why Arthur H. Fowler, a man who never existed, was regularly named in The Evening World and eventually, despite never living, had to be killed.Hear the story of Lord Porn and his female followers.Was the report of bowler hatted beggars surrounding the White House, printed in the Daily Mail just fake news?Speaking of bowlers, discover why celebrated cartoonist Keith Waite began adding characters in bowler hats to his cartoons - first one, then two then more each day.Was President Jimmy Carter really told to grow a beard one inch long? The editor of the Daily Mail believed so and published the story.Exposed - the politician who sold secret designs for Concord to the Russians and then pretended to die. His story was on news-stands across the globe.Then there's Monty Fresco MBE, the award winning Daily Mail photographer, who 'kidnapped' boxing legend Mohammed Ali and took him to the wrong London park.Sally Coxsedge of Hastings, England, sold the family's pet parrot. Why? Because during arguments, she says, it always took her husband's side.But journalism isn't all fun and games, scoops and interviews. Sometime journalist becomes part of a story that's making the news."At 20 minutes past three in the afternoon the haggard man knew he was about to die. That was wh ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Graham Watkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/156607/bk_acx0_156607_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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