Propaganda and second hand news

Two great opinion pieces in the Guardian today written by Peter Wilby on the subject of Alastair Campbell’s Cudlipp memorial lecture last week –

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/04/media.pressandpublishing

– which neatly seg-ways into Nick Davies op ed rant to help push his book Flat Earth News. The opinion feature  “Our media have become mass producers of distortion.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2251982,00.html

It suggests that the print establishment has become a conduit for propaganda and second hand news”.