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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).
BBC News is in turmoil. Having last year dropped a report on claims of sexual abuse against the late DJ and television…
Why Are We The Good Guys? Reclaiming Your Mind From The Delusions Of Propaganda By David Cromwell Published by Zero Books,…
Ben Goldacre is a medical doctor and science writer who, until November 2011, wrote the Guardian’s Bad Science column which was presented…
Last month, climate scientists announced that Arctic sea ice had shrunk to its smallest surface area since satellite observations began in 1979.…
The following is an adapted excerpt from a new book by David Cromwell. ‘Why Are We The Good Guys? Reclaiming Your Mind From The…
One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that ‘we’ are great defenders of human rights, a free press and…
How many war crimes does a western leader have to commit before he is deemed persona non grata by the corporate media and the…
When is an act of terrorism not terrorism? When the victims are officially sanctioned state enemies. This was clear from the political…
Has the internet made journalists more accountable to the public? Only if media professionals are actually willing to engage with those who…