Introduction / Hugh Stephenson
Why governments lie / Ben Bradlee
How many miles to Babylon? / Denis Forman
right to be let alone / Louis Blom-Cooper
Freedom of expression: the worm in the bud / Liz Forgan
Truth, journalism and the Gulf / Godfrey Hodgson
Robert Maxwell: a very British experience / Tom Bower
Violence and responsibility / Michael Grade
Programmes or products?: the management ethos and creative values / John Tusa
reporter's victories / Jeremy Isaacs
unholy alliance: the relationship between Members of Parliament and the press / Roy Hattersley
freedom of the press and other platitudes / Alan Rusbridger
Pandering to populism / John Humphrys
Open government, Whitehall and the press since 1945 / Peter Hennessy
media and the political process / Tony Benn.
