How Long to Read Inside Track

How Long Does it Take to Read Inside Track?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 47 minutes to read Inside Track by Robin Oakley

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

For thirty years Robin Oakley has reported from the front-line of British politics. Throughout the 1990s his was one of the BBC's most familiar faces on the Nine O'Clock News, as night after night he stood outside the Houses of Parliament or Number Ten Downing Street, telling us about the highs and lows of political life, the swings and roundabouts of cabinet reshuffles, the machinations and intrigues of top politicians. Robin Oakley has been a top newspaper and TV journalist all his working life. Having started out at the Liverpool Post in the 1960s, he moved to the Sunday Express in the 1970s, the Daily Mail in the 1980s, before becoming political editor of The Times - the best job in journalism, he was told - in 1986. He reported on Margaret Thatcher when she was in full throttle and when she was driven out of office; on John Major's subsequent rise to power and the Gulf War; and he was there when New Labour swept to power. He has acted as Thatcher's official photographer in Siberia, and sat beside Blair as Alastair Campbell rewrote one of his keynote speeches. Few people have been on the inside track of political journalism for longer than he has. Now, after his much publicized 'early retirement' from the Nine O'Clock News, he gives us the full account of his time at the BBC, discusses his relationship with top politicians, and offers his controversial thoughts on TV journalism and the impact of the media on politics today. Peppered with wonderful anecdotes told with appealingly self-deprecating humour, and spiced with controversial insights into the workings of today's press, Inside Track shows us what it's really like to be a top journalist stalking the corridors of power. OAKLEY on: POLITICIANS 'Throughout the past couple of decades the cynic who first wrote that politicians are the people who tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read has had his point proved to him time and time again.' THE ROLE OF JOURNALISTS 'I believe that journalists should enlighten not impose. Too many editors now see themselves and their teams as players on the political field, not as critics and commentators beside it.' THE SOUNDBITE CULTURE 'We live in a rushed age and politicians have to learn to express themselves pithily. But when Walter Cronkite points out that in 1968 the average soundbite on American TV channels was 42.3 seconds and that it is now down to 7 or 8 seconds, we have to take a warning.' THE BBC 'I do not deny that for me the BBC was something special. I simply had not imagined that its executives could behave in the way they did. Let those who follow after me, however, remember the words of one senior figure who too had suffered in an equally brutal putsch. "Underneath all the sentiment, the BBC is no more than a bureaucracy, and like any bureaucracy it has a cold heart. You will find it is quite incapable of returning the love you feel for it.'

How long is Inside Track?

Inside Track by Robin Oakley is 403 pages long, and a total of 101,959 words.

This makes it 136% the length of the average book. It also has 125% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Inside Track Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 17 minutes to read Inside Track aloud.

What Reading Level is Inside Track?

Inside Track is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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