Spies Spin And The Fourth Estate British Intelligence And The Media Paul Lashmar by Paul Lashmar 9781474443098, 1474443095 instant download after payment.

• 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 journalist
• Develops a theoretical framework that draws on concepts from British cultural studies, post-Frankfurt School philosophy (Bourdieu, Foucault and Habermas), political theory and Intelligence Studies
• An extremely timely book given the Snowden affair and growing concerns that we are ‘sleepwalking’ into becoming a mass surveillance society

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.