We all remember Peter Greste’s incarceration in Egypt, his sham trial for “threatening national security:, and his 400 days of solitary confinement and detention in an Egyptian gaol. This book is more than just an account of his horrifying experience. He’s been reporting for two decades from the front lines of conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. He asserts in this book that the media has become part of the battlefield; journalists have moved from being witnesses of war to a means by which war is waged. From the murders at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, to Trump’s phony war on “fake news” and Australia’s metadata laws, he tells the effect this is all having on the nature or reporting and the mind of the reporter – and of yow modern journalism and truth are under threat.
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