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(1)Amazon's documentary "The Fake Sheikh" on Tabloid Undercover Reporter Mazher Mahmood is well worth watching IMO. It shows a sickness at the heart of UK media, all its great investigative power (mis)used against...Page 3 Models, catwalk models and a pop star...
(2)You have to fill in one blank yourself- the Tabloid hacks keep saying 'he was ready to expose the powerful' , when he only aims at 'The Well Known', and as these Celebs have done little wrong, resorts to entrapment + lies - it's the UK media ferociously savaging the innocent
(3)It is well told -by including the voices sympathetic to Mahmood it makes a fully rounded and human docu, though you have to make your own judgement. Some is stomach churning, like when he tricks , recruits and takes a coach load of undocumented migrants to a detention centre
(4)Like phone hacking (which Mahmood looked down on as cheap,compared to his theatrical skills) this was the heart of UK journalism, not the fringe : Using all its investigative power to turn over minor Celebs, to give the impression of 'exposing the powerful ' without doing so
(5) There is incidentally, by default, a guide to how you should use undercover 'stings' in here - if the 'mark' does not, in the process, admit to similar 'crimes' than the one you've set up, that also check out, the investigation is worthless
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