Banner Theatre has been working with the Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom and the National Union of Journalists to develop Embedded with the Bankers, a new 25 minute live music and video performance, which asks the question: Why didn’t the UK media warn the British public about the impending banking collapse and recession?

Through interviews with key experts, television journalist and writer Paul Mason, author and journalist Nick Davies and former BBC political correspondent Nick Jones, Embedded with the Bankers charts the structural changes in UK newspapers, which have undermined the strong British tradition of investigative journalism.

This new Banner production shows how, too frequently now, news stories are dominated and controlled by the political agendas of corporate public relations and the fear of expensive libel litigation.

Embedded with the Bankers shows what’s gone wrong with the UK newspaper media at a time when they should be helping the British public to be properly informed about the key issues we face in contemporary Britain.

Followed by a Q&A.

Part of the Hard Times Summit

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