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Billions Will Die The Independent and the Independent on Sunday (IoS) pride themselves on their environmental coverage. No doubt their editors will…
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).
After 4.6 billion years of planetary history, we may become the first species to monitor its own extinction. In impressive detail, humankind…
A Media Lens reader wrote to us recently quoting historian Mark Curtis’s accurate observations that: “Britain is a major, systematic contributor to…
Helen Boaden, director of BBC News, said earlier this year: “We are committed to evidence-based journalism. We have not been able to…
“I am a maximalist. I want more of everything.” (Sir Anthony O’Reilly, chief executive, Independent News & Media Plc) “More than a…
We do not know whether Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger wrote yesterday’s leader on “Britain’s post-invasion commitment to Iraq”, but we assume that…
The Independent: As Good As It Gets? The Independent – like the Guardian, a newspaper with supposed progressive credentials – noted blandly…
A Raging Debate in Nowhere Land Earlier this month, New Scientist reported the astonishing news that the world’s largest frozen peat bog,…
Media Lens recently issued a media alert about the lack of British media coverage given to the World Tribunal on Iraq, held…
“The best relationship with our viewers is no longer one of parent-child but of consenting adults trying to piece together the best…