An Even Deeper Hollywood Dive

With the intrepid no-brakes interviewer, James Delingpole

More adventures with James, in which he schools my innocence and I find myself telling him about delivering a script to Warren Beatty at the Ritz on Central Park South, and he answes the door dressed in a very short dressing gown, which barely covers him, tossed unmade bed behind him, and he invites me in. I have never run quite so fast down a hotel corridor.

James and I are from the same pod, writing originally for the very best, most literary (him but sometimes me), of legacy media, and happy with it, until dawn broke and we both absconded with a similar set of skills and knowledge and turned our attention to what the media has been hiding.

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Elizabeth Nickson was trained as a reporter at the London bureau of Time Magazine. She became European Bureau Chief of LIFE magazine in its last years of monthly publication, and during that time, acquired the rights to Nelson Mandela’s memoir before he was released from Robben Island. She went on to write for Harper’s Magazine, the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Telegraph, the Globe and Mail and the National Post. Her first book The Monkey Puzzle Tree was an investigation of the CIA MKULTRA mind control program and was published by Bloomsbury and Knopf Canada. Her next book, Eco-Fascists,,How Radical Environmentalists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage, was a look at how environmentalism, badly practiced, is destroying the rural economy and rural culture in the U.S. and all over the world. It was published by Adam Bellow at Harper Collins US. She is a Senior Fellow at the Frontier Center for Public Policy, fcpp.org. You can read in depth policy papers about various elements of the environmental junta here: https://independent.academia.edu/ElizabethNickson.

Her essay on the catastrophic failings of Canada's CBC is included in Michael Walsh’s Against the Corporate Media, 42 Ways the Press Hates You, published in September 2024.