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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).
On January 7, 2003, Media Lens published a Media Alert: ‘Moral Dark Age? Millions Of Suffering Iraqis: A “Blip” In The Global…
Take a look at the media sections of the broadsheets, if you can handle the inane navel-gazing, insider gossip and trivia. A…
Western state power prides itself on its ‘moderation’, along with its self-lauded commitments to freedom, tolerance, and “the inalienable rights of man”,…
(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Private Planet, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Capitalist…
News broadcasts and column inches are rapidly saturating with the rhetoric of war. The fate of the Iraqi people hangs in the…
One of the guiding principles of the western liberal democracies is that the crimes of our ‘enemies’ must be scrupulously held up…
Mark Damazer, the deputy director of BBC News, has declared his support for the recent controversial BBC Correspondent documentary on Iraq (see…
On May 13, 2002, Media Lens issued a media alert titled ‘The Media’s Stranglehold on the “Climate” Debate’: We suggested that Media…
A popular view today – that is to say, the prevailing view held by those in positions of power and influence -…