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Tony Blair’s speech yesterday to the Labour Party Conference in Brighton was “low-key, conversational and reasoned” the Guardian informs us (Leader, September…
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 Parts 1 and 2 of this alert, we asked a number of British media editors to conduct publicly available critiques investigating…
Child Poverty? Who Cares!According to recent British government figures, a staggering 3.6 million children are living in poverty in the UK. The…
In Part 1 of this alert, we asked a number of British newspaper editors to conduct publicly available critiques investigating their failings…
“The evidence suggests we have no need for a mea culpa. We did our job well.” (David Mannion, Head of Independent Television…
Mainstream media show an astonishing capacity for overlooking western crimes against the people of Iraq: a country utterly devastated by two US-UK…
On 29-30 April, 1991 one of history’s premier storms hit Bangladesh – 138,000 people were killed. One local woman spoke of a…
Introduction – Anyone Here Feeling Stupid? Have you noticed how stupid you feel when you watch the news? Hands up anybody who…
In 1794, George Washington confided to Alexander Hamilton, a fellow architect of the nascent US republic forged upon democratic ideals, that he…
The impact of war is always devastating, horrific and routinely sanitised for home audiences by editors and journalists. Robert Fisk, Middle East…