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Watching the corporate media report the ‘financial crisis’ is instructive. From the perspective of power, it is important that a steadying hand…
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).
Introduction One of the major events of the twentieth century, with reverberations that reach today, is the dropping of the atomic bomb…
On October 10, the BBC’s Ten O’Clock News led with the story that a High Court Judge had found nine “errors” in…
On October 10, the BBC’s Ten O’Clock News led with the story that a High Court Judge had found nine “errors” in…
An Equitable Sharing of Resources? We are led to believe that Western societies are free and open. In many respects this is…
News media this week are devoting huge swathes of coverage to the report by General David Petraeus, the top US military commander…
The Lexicon Of Totalitarianism In Part 1 of this alert (http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070508_the_shining_city.php), we analysed Justin Webb’s recent BBC Radio 4 series on “anti-Americanism”,…
‘The shining city upon a hill’ was how John Winthrop, one of the early Pilgrims, described America, his new homeland. Winthrop was…
“There ain’t no time to wonder whyWhoopee! We’re all gonna die.” (‘Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die’ Rag, Country Joe and The…
It was the Daily Telegraph, not the ‘liberal’ Independent or Guardian, that reported accusations last week that Tony Blair is “wasting nearly…