Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

What recent Netflix shows – including The Crown and Beckham – get wrong about the British press

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par Rachel Sykes, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, University of Birmingham

Twelve years after the Leveson inquiry and the closure of News of the World, the British press are having a reckoning on Netflix. Recent celebrity documentaries Beckham and Robbie Williams, and the final season of TV drama The Crown, have painted a portrait of the UK tabloids as cruel, sadistic and predatory of its homegrown celebrities.

While criticism of the British tabloids – particularly the ethics and methods of the News of the World – is often…

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