Press Ganged

With the press and phone hacking controversy never far from the publics mind Press Ganged tells of araw recruit setting out on a journalistic career in the 1960s in a same-but-very-different atmosphere fromthat of the 21st century. The stories covered are fictional, loosely based on personal experience, ranging from defying the Ministryof Defence to probing the occult, uncovering sleeze in high places to monitoring progress of an airportextension protest, and generally being present at peoples joyous and tragic moments. The headlines might not always tell it as it was.The whole is told against a background of life in the computer-and-mobile- phone-free newsroom with a cast of news gatherers, supervised by an early version ofMr. Murdoch, and their personal stories.