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Dishonesty in television may arise from lofty principle: but it still bears the devil’s fingerprint

A columnist should rejoice, I suppose, when an issue he has spotted early and returned to often suddenly catches fire, becoming the hot topic of the season. I started writing about dishonesty in television about ten years ago, wrote often about it for the Times, and made a programme for BBC Radio 5 Live with precisely this focus.

issue 01 September 2007
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