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The title above Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s column yesterday in the Independent was a real corker, joining our list of banal nuggets from the…
David Cromwell
David Cromwell studied natural philosophy and astronomy and did a PhD in solar physics. He worked for a spell with Shell in the Netherlands and afterwards took up a research position in oceanography in Southampton. He left that in 2010 to work full-time on Media Lens where he is an editor. He is the author of Why Are We The Good Guys? (Zero Books, 2012); co-author, with David Edwards, of two Media Lens books: Guardians of Power (Pluto Books, 2006) and Newspeak In the 21st Century (Pluto Books, 2009); author of Private Planet (Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2001); and co-editor, with Mark Levene, of Surviving Climate Change (Pluto Books, 2007).
In its latest annual report on media performance, US-based watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) noted that: “Most people are aware…
The Bland Leading The Bland October 9 saw one of the Independent’s explosive front-page stories on the global environment: ‘Earth’s ecological debt…
In its latest annual report on media performance, US-based watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) noted that: “Most people are aware…
The Australian social scientist Alex Carey summed up the evolution of political power in the last century as follows: “The twentieth century…
Since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the BBC, like the media more generally, has consistently attempted to delegitimise armed opposition…
An Understandable Mistake Readers may recall our alert of May 8, 2006, ‘Lining Up The Next Victims’ (www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060508_lining_up_the.php). We described how the…
In November last year, as many as 24 Iraqi civilians – among them 11 women and children – were killed by US…
Last year we reported that Michael McCarthy, environment editor of the Independent, was ‘taken aback’ at dramatic scientific warnings of ‘major new…
Sean O’Grady wrote recently in the ad-filled motoring supplement of The Independent: “in answer to the many letters we get criticising some…