Book review: Keeping tabs on propaganda

Claud Cockburn built his reputation by encouraging readers to be far less trusting of the official version of their reality
Book review: Keeping tabs on propaganda

Claud Cockburn edits 'The Week', the magazine he founded in 1932; an anti-establishment, anti-Nazi voice, the magazine challenged conventional wisdom when doing so was dangerous.

Sat, 11 Jan, 2025 - 01:00
Jack Power

  • Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism 
  • Patrick Cockburn 
  • Verso, hb €35.00 

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