The Clickbait Journalism That Went Too Far

Perhaps it started with the Sunday Times. The newspaper’s brilliant Insight team brought genuine scoops from the uncovering ofSoviet defector Kim Philly’s rolein MI6 tothe thalidomide scandal and its links with Haig whisky, whorevealed Israel’s secret manufacture of nuclear weapons and,recently, the FIFA cash-for-votes scandal, but after Rupert Murdoch acquired it in 1981 much of […]