The Awful Truth
My Adventures with Australia's Most Notorious Tabloid
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The Awful Truth
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Narrated by:
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Lewis Fitz-Gerald
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By:
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Adrian Tame
About this listen
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 an colourful era of newspapers and larger-than-life reporters that we will never see the like of again.
©2020 Adrian Tame (P)2020 Simon & Schuster AustraliaI recommend Adrian Tame , his writing is thoroughly excellent on all counts.
I was really moved by his personal account after a thoroughly engrossing & entertaining memoir. LMAO.
The narration was perfect. Thankyou.
I highly recommend this book.
I thank him for his observations about the industry now. Those were the days. Tame proves that journos make the best authors.
Truth is always stranger than fiction.
It's True!
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Loved It
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Interesting
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I would argue that Tame is quite the hypocrite and this is exquisitely demonstrated in the book. He speaks of his days rolling around with the deplorable Hells Angels including willing drug use and admits he has crossed the line of objective journalism. He deifies the Hells Angels and is part of the romanticisation of outlaw culture that plagued Australia. OMCG’s are criminals engaged in criminal activity and no amount of flowery fascination by the likes of Tame can disguise that. Yet Tame laments the decline in the standard of Australian journalism. A very decline that he, with his drooling fascination of outlaw bikers, contributed to. He also rants about trump and the coining of the phrase ‘fake news’. Fake news is indeed a real thing and Tame talks about stretching the truth as a newsman.
It is sad to read of the passing of his wife, and the internal struggle he underwent following that. If this book were not a daily special, I would not have otherwise purchased it.
Average at best
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