- Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; New edition edition (2 Jun 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857991249
- ISBN-13: 978-1857991246
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 717,327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is the record of a journalist who told of Thalidomide victims,the Kim Philby story & published the Crossman diaries.He also gives insights into Rupert Murdoch & Margaret Thatcher.It is an enthralling & astonishing story.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Gripping yarns,
By bowsider "bowsider" (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Good Times, Bad Times (Hardcover)
I've seen this recommended as a set text on a journalism course; quite right too. This is a personal account of extraordinary events in London newspaper publishing from the man at the centre of it. For me, the only chapter that loses impetus is the description of the negotiations for a management buyout of Times Newspapers; starting well, it descends into what feels like an endless list of meetings, which we know now (and knew then) took place in Rupert Murdoch's lengthy shadow. But it's useful to know that nobody gave up without a fight. The job of editing in all its aspects has never been more entertainingly described. The chapters on serious journalists sinking their teeth into serious issues, and refusing to let go, are magnificent. Murdoch's priorities and operating style, and those of the union leaders of the time, form a dual line of huskies hauling the Times Newspapers to a future that was all too visible. The past is hard to recreate accurately; reading this book allows you to visit the 60s and 70s as they really were (£16,000 as compensation for Thalidomide, altered only thanks to the European Court of Human Rights! The Times so bedevilled by strikes that it disappeared for a whole year!) and see what we have gained and lost.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Essential reading for anyone who believes in a free press,
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This review is from: Good Times Bad Times (Paperback)
Good Times, Bad Times is an account by Harold Evans of his years firstly as Editor of the Sunday Times and subsequently,the Times, under its then new proprietor, Rupert Murdoch.Using his superior journalistic skills Evans provides not only an absorbing - and worrying - account of the series of events which led to Murdoch's acquisition of two of the most important Anglo Saxon publications in the world, but also a vital record of events that have ultimately shaped the Great Britain of the present. As well as the Murdoch episode, Harold Evans gives the fascinating background to the Sunday Times investigation of important matters such as the Thalidomide scandal, and the affair that rocked the British establishment at the time, the Philby scandal. A five star read.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A great newspaper dismantled to make way for Margaret Thatcher's Government.,
By Kerouac fan (Torquay, England, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Good Times, Bad Times (Hardcover)
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Yes the Left have learned a lot from the Capitalists about the means of communication (the media) controlling the peoples hearts (and minds). Many of us lefties, back around 1975, as Thatcher propelled by the rightwing Sun newspaper swept to power, thought we'd still get good liberal/leftist thought via the quality centre/left newspaper The Sunday Times, this rightly had hold of the thinking middle-class in Britain. It was a ground-breaking world class newspaper. But no, stings were pulled and laws were changed in Westminster which resulted in The Sunday Times becoming a shadow of it's former radical self. Top journalists were sacked, or left: disgusted. Gradually readers dropped away and it took it's place among the rest of the grey conservative sunday's. Thereby a possible strong and well respected critic of the coming Thatcher revolution had been effectively silenced. The whole sorry story is told by it's editor from the great days 1965-1975 Harold Evans. It's a good read, and a lesson in government/establishment manipulation/destruction of the parts of the media it feels is undermining it's power.
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