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Nick Davies
Nick Davies
British Journalist
Born: Mar 28, 1953
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Related authors: Alastair Campbell Caitlin Moran David Attenborough Malcolm Muggeridge Martin Bashir Nigella Lawson Rose George Tony Wilson
In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power. Nick Davies
Me Abuse Of Power Power Case Seems Rather Abuse Make Got Bullies Lot Hit Persistent Child Anybody Against Naturally Who Exposing
Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain. Nick Davies
Life Daily Culture Wonderful World Safety Mysteries Imbecile Our Once Defined Some Remain Merely Obvious Tracks Existence Banal Frightening Predictable Place Them Full Fascinating Now Daily Life Suffocating
The vast bulk of Murdoch's news output, including the huge majority of any falsehood and distortion, is simply the spontaneous product of his highly commercialised newsrooms. It sells. Nick Davies
News Distortion Vast Output Simply Highly Spontaneous Majority Bulk His Falsehood Huge Sells Any Product Including
The effect of climate change is not simply to reduce rain during the summer months, but also to increase the number of torrential storms. When the rain falls that hard and fast, it cannot sink into the ground and go down to the aquifers. Nick Davies
Change Rain Down Increase Summer Months Simply Also Reduce Climate Climate Change Go Falls Sink Effect Storms Cannot Hard Ground Fast Number
The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it. Nick Davies
People Money Pay Out Tabloid Only Point Journalism Read Because Exists Friends Often Newspapers Millions Millions Of People
Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure. Nick Davies
Life Work News Privacy World Digging Back Enriched Mine Criminals Volatile Had Princess Diana Celebrity Any Public Public Figure Figure Specialised Activities
In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production Fifth Estate's portrayal of the Guardian's work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the running dispute between journalists who wanted to redact documents to make them safe and Julian Assange, who wanted no such restraint. Nick Davies
Work Guardian Wikileaks Spielberg Detail Running Restraint Between Journalists New Safe Make Documents Accurate Wanted Estate Fictional Them Fifth Production Who Describing Film Dispute Portrayal
Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up. Nick Davies
Physics Pure Own Way Having Physicist Individual Studied He Primarily His Maths Up Australia Where Grew Thinks University
On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god. Nick Davies
God First Bizarre Seem Mystery Simply Encountered Acquaintance
Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the 'News of the World,' they cut short their original inquiry; suppressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why? Nick Davies
News World Law Suppressed Worrying Evidence Press Inquiry Broke Has-Been Something Misled Concealed Know Dealing Yard Affair Been Very Scotland Going Short Information Public Cut Original Now Why
You don't get shouted at at the 'Guardian.' Nobody bullies you at the paper; nobody tells you what to write. Now, I love working in that atmosphere; I am free to research and write what I want. Nick Davies
Love You Guardian Free Research Paper Tells Atmosphere Write Nobody Am Bullies Get Want Working Now
Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview. Nick Davies
Shoes Imagination Interview Put Person Reporters Want Themselves Really Use

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