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Why do activists so often focus on hard facts, reams of figures and dry arguments, while neglecting to deal with the intensely…
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).
What is news? And who makes the news? Perhaps BBC director of news Richard Sambrook can help shed some light. Sambrook recently…
The Chains of Seduction “If the mass will be free of chains of iron, it must accept chains of silver. If it…
The title of activist-historian Mark Curtis’s recent book tells it all: “Web of Deceit. Britain’s Real Role in the World”. It is…
Honourable Deception When it came to power in 1997, Britain’s Labour government claimed that it would be a “force for good in…
The media system is not monolithic – dissident material does appear, comparatively honest documentaries are seen. The point is that they are…
The priorities are clear, the perspective of power unthinkingly adopted. And so mainstream news headlines declaim that “coalition forces have penetrated deep…
Quote 1 “Iraq: The Human Cost Of War50,000 civilian deaths?500,000 civilians injured?2,000,000 refugees and displaced people?10,000,000 in need of humanitarian assistance?”(Front cover…
On Saturday 15 February, anti-war demonstrations will be taking place around the world. The Media Lens co-editors will be joining upwards of…
“Global warming is great,” wrote space technologist Duncan Steel in the comment pages of The Guardian recently, “because it protects us from…