“Cohen was raised on the New Musical Express School of Reporting, during the mid-1970s heyday of Julie Burchill, Charles Shaar Murray and Tony Parsons, when sea-freighted copies of the paper would arrive in New Zealand months after publication date. Style, not immediacy, was the traded object. Attitude was everything, and Cohen excels at the politics of stance.

Greatest Hits is a fascinating how-to-do-it by which media students could profit – if, in the future, there is journalism as we know it, or practitioners of the profession who haven’t moved to the manipulations of public relations. Cohen’s ability to find a story in his inability to find a story is the true mark of a great journalist. His perceptions are as sharp as an assassin’s stiletto.”

— David Herkt, Landfall

“I ADORE this book.”

— Julie Burchill