Flat Earth News was greeted in the London Review of Books on its publication as "a genuinely important book, one which is likely to change, permanently, the way anyone who reads it looks at the British newspaper industry".
Flat Earth News je dočekana na London Review of Books kao "istinski važna knjiga, jedna od onih koja će, vjerojatno, trajno promijeniti, način na koji svatko tko čita novine, gleda na britansku novinsku industriju".