When social media giants pay "entertainers" with their huge legion of followers to create their own version of the truth, veteran journalist Peter Clack says the likelihood of any real truth emerging is very slim indeed.
The former Canberra Times crime reporter has published his first book since his infamous and controversial Firestorm, which painfully exposed the many deep flaws that contributed to the death and destruction wrought by the 2003 wildfires that destroyed a huge swathe of western Canberra.