Cockburn Patrick - Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied Claud Cockburn And The Invention Of Guerrilla Journalism - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Radical journalist Claud Cockburn fought successfully against the political and media establishment writing for publications as varied as The Times and Private Eye. To Graham Greene he was the greatest journalist of the twentieth century. Born in China in 1904 and educated alongside Evelyn Waugh Cockburn launched into a stellar career as a Times correspondent first in Berlin then New York interviewing Al Capone in Chicago and finally Washington. He resigned in 1932 to start The Week an anti - Nazi and anti - establishment newsletter with an influence out of all proportion to its circulation. British officials were horrified by the scoops he published. These included stories on the political influence of German appeasers the Cliveden Set in the British elite and the previously suppressed news of Edward VIII's abdication. Cockburn wrote dispatches while fighting in the Spanish Civil War. In Spain he helped W. H. Auden and clashed with George Orwell. Claud's private life too was eventful. He was married three times once to Jean Ross the model for Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles. Patrick Cockburn himself an international journalist chronicles his father Claud's lifelong dedication to a guerrilla campaign against the powerful on behalf of the powerless. It is a biography for today's age in which journalism is frequently suppressed overshadowed undervalued and corrupted
Title: Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied Claud Cockburn And The Invention Of Guerrilla Journalism
Author(s): Cockburn Patrick
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781804290743
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 10/22/2024
Category: Press & Journalism