My friend Julie lent (is that the past tense of lend) the book "We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People" by Elliot Higgins. It is a decent size and the print is a good size for my old eyes , but it is slow reading for me because you really have to read every line.
There are only six chapters but the second one about the genesis of Bellingcat is almost sixty pages , a third of the prose in the book.
This is the blurb about it , I was gonna try and tell you but this does it far better.
"Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, is redefining the way we think about news, politics and the digital future. Here, their founder - a high-school dropout on a kitchen laptop - tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering, galvanising citizen journalists across the globe to expose war crimes and pick apart disinformation, using just their computers."
It is thoroughly absorbing and frightening but amazing that a group of people who's main investigative tool is an incredible attention to detail can actually bring such essential news to our intention in a world swathed with absolute disinformation.
An appropriate record is "John Walker's Blues" by Steve Earle from the album "Jerusalem".
I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:
