ABSTRACT
A Permanent Undersecretary at the Foreign Office, is said to have once remarked to a journalist, 'You think we lie to you. But we don't He, really we don't. However, when you discover that, you make an even greater error. You think we tell you the truth. ' The remark directs our attention to one of the most significant and yet under-researched influences on media representations and accounts: the influence exerted by news sources in their control and management of information. .
