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'Provides the clearest of reasons for setting aside the traditional rules of journalism' -- Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% and All That Is Solid

Jairo Lugo-Ocando reveals clearly and concisely how, for the last three decades, the news media of the world has constructed pedestals for the super-rich, where voices criticizing growing inequality and rising poverty have been often dismissed as utopian fantasists. -- Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford The issue of inequality and how it is represented in the media is a very important subject investigated with diligence and insight by the author in this book, Jairo Lugo-Ocando. -- Gordon Brown, MP, Former British Prime Minister

'The book should be read by everyone interested in way the media deal with issues of economic inequality and injustice' -- Democratic Communique 'Provides the clearest of reasons for setting aside the traditional rules of journalism' -- Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% and All That Is Solid

'Provides the clearest of reasons for setting aside the traditional rules of journalism, and embracing instead a view of shared risk, where journalists' own concerns about their future are reflected in their reporting' -- Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% and All That Is Solid

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Jairo Lugo-Ocando is a lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty (Pluto, 2014). His research addresses the relation between journalism, development, poverty and social exclusion.

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