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The Awful Truth
My adventures with Australia's most notorious tabloid
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Before Fake News, there was the real Fake News. There was Truth.
Hailed as ‘a fearless exposer of folly, vice and crime’ when it first hit the streets in the 1890s, Truth was later condemned by a High Court Judge as ‘a wretched little paper, reeking of filth, injurious to the health of house servants and young girls’. Much later, it earned the nickname ‘The Old Whore of La Trobe Street’. Truth was called many things, but it was never boring.
Adrian Tame knows that better than anyone as he worked for Truth for more than a decade as a reporter and news editor. In the years it was owned by the Murdoch family, he worked alongside young Rupert as he cut his teeth on the shock horror scandals that graced the pages of Truth when it was selling a whopping 400,000 copies a week.
Funny, often outrageous, and always thoroughly entertaining, The Awful Truth is a rollercoaster ride through a colourful era of newspapers and larger-than-life reporters that we will never see the like of again.
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ISBN: 9781760850494
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 August 2020
Country: Australia
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Australia
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Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Adrian Tame has worked as a writer, journalist and broadcaster in Australia, the UK, North America and Mexico. He worked for Truth newspaper for thirteen years as a reporter and news editor. He is the author of The Matriarch, a biography of ‘Granny Evil’ Kathy Pettingill, Deadlier than the Male and co-author with F.P.J. Robotham, of Maralinga: British A-bomb, Australian Legacy. He lives in Maldon, Victoria.
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