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'Mick Hume's book is a rousing defence of free speech, freedom of the Press and the inalienable right to publish and be damned. Every editor, every proprietor in Fleet Street should read it. So should Lord Justice Leveson before he completes his report on press ethics. No buts .' - Trevor Kavanagh, Associate Editor, The Sun. 'A sparky, sarky defence of press freedom for one and all, hacking away the moral high ground from under media-ocrities and other snobs who think that popular is a dirty word.' - Julie Burchill, author and journalist. '[This book] questions what we mean by ethical journalism, the public interest and a free press, with some splendidly non-conformist answers.' - Simon Jenkins, the Guardian. 'The freedom of the press needs its defenders now more than ever. And Mick Hume provides it here with his characteristic wit and verve. A masterclass in the writing of polemic.' - Daniel Finkelstein, The Times. lays waste party lines and conventional codes of conduct in a blast of derision from far-left field. -- Peter Preston The Observer

'Mick Hume's book is a rousing defence of free speech, freedom of the Press and the inalienable right to publish and be damned. Every editor, every proprietor in Fleet Street should read it. So should Lord Justice Leveson before he completes his report on press ethics. No buts .' - Trevor Kavanagh, Associate Editor, The Sun. 'A sparky, sarky defence of press freedom for one and all, hacking away the moral high ground from under media-ocrities and other snobs who think that popular is a dirty word.' - Julie Burchill, author and journalist. '[This book] questions what we mean by ethical journalism, the public interest and a free press, with some splendidly non-conformist answers.' - Simon Jenkins, the Guardian. 'The freedom of the press needs its defenders now more than ever. And Mick Hume provides it here with his characteristic wit and verve. A masterclass in the writing of polemic.' - Daniel Finkelstein, The Times.

'Mick Hume's book is a rousing defence of free speech, freedom of the Press and the inalienable right to publish and be damned. Every editor, every proprietor in Fleet Street should read it. So should Lord Justice Leveson before he completes his report on press ethics. No buts .' - Trevor Kavanagh, Associate Editor, The Sun. 'A sparky, sarky defence of press freedom for one and all, hacking away the moral high ground from under media-ocrities and other snobs who think that popular is a dirty word.' - Julie Burchill, author and journalist. '[This book] questions what we mean by ethical journalism, the public interest and a free press, with some splendidly non-conformist answers.' - Simon Jenkins, the Guardian.

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Mick Hume is a writer and a journalist. He is currently editor-at-large of the online magazine Spiked (www.spiked-online.com). Hume has been writing about issues to do with the media, freedom of expression and a free press for many years. His previous publications include Whose War Is It Anyway? The Dangers of the Journalism of Attachment (1997), and Televictims: Emotional Correctness in the media AD (After Diana) (1998).

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