"The duty of doctors is to give health to their patients, the duty of the singer is to sing, and the duty of the journalist is to write what the journalist sees in reality." Anna Politkovskaya
"I got my first job when I was hired as a trainee with the Mirror Group on a cluster of local newspapers which they used to own in the West Country. I went from there briefly to the Sunday People and then for a year to the London Evening Standard before I was hired as a news reporter by the Guardian, in 1979. And that has been my professional anchor ever since.
On the way through, I floated off for about six years, to be home affairs correspondent at the Observer, chief feature writer at Robert Maxwell's London Daily News, a freelancer in Washington DC and an on-screen reporter for Granada TV's World In Action, before going back to the Guardian, where I still work on a freelance contract.
Nick Davies, Author of Flat Earth News (2008)
"This brilliant book by Nick Davies, unrelenting in its research, ruthless in its honesty, is a landmark expose by a courageous insider. All those interested in truth - outsiders and insiders - should read it." John Pilger.
