By compiling quotes and photography drawn from various media sources, Robert Cooney composes a straightforward report of a fatal train accident that occurred in 1977 in Granville, Australia. Prefacing this spiral-bound edition is a page containing two quotes; the first from Rupert Murdoch’s speech given to United Press International, and the second from “The Art of Political Lying” by Jonathan Swift published in 1710. Cooney’s A.O.U.L.I.T.S. therefore functions as an exposition of two closely linked disasters: the overarching physical horror of the train accident, and the underlying social horror of propaganda fueled by the media empire. The publication was printed by photocopy in both color and black-and-white, and is interspersed with photocopied imagery and typewritten texts.
