NEWSPEAK in the 21st Century

David Edwards and David Cromwell

Pluto Press

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For almost 10 years, Media Lens has encouraged thousands of readers to email senior editors and journalists, challenging them to account for their distorted reporting on climate change, the Palestine-Israel conflict, the Iraq war and much more. The responses -- often surprising, sometimes outrageous -- reveal the arrogance, unaccountability and servility to power of even our most respected media.

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"Regular critical analysis of the media, filling crucial gaps and correcting the distortions of ideological prisms, has never been more important. Media Lens has performed a major public service by carrying out this task with energy, insight, and care." --Noam Chomsky
 
"In telling us the unvarnished truth, Media Lens is the best thing to happen to the British media for as long as I can remember." --John Pilger
 
"Media Lens is doing an outstanding job of pressing the mainstream media to at least follow their own stated principles and meet their public service obligations. It is fun as well as enlightening to watch their representatives, while sometimes giving straightforward answers to queries, often getting flustered, angry, evasive, and sometimes mistating the facts. This won't change the media very much, but it will make them a bit more careful and honest, and it will help educate the public, which will have its own useful spinoff." --Edward S. Herman
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David Edwards and David Cromwell

David Edwards is co-founder/editor of, and works full-time for, Media Lens (www.medialens.org). He is author of Free to be Human (1995), The Compassionate Revolution (1998) and co-author of Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media (Pluto, 2006). David Cromwell is co-founder and editor of Media Lens (www.medialens.org), and a researcher in ocean circulation and climate at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. He is author of Private Planet (2001) and co-author of Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media (Pluto, 2006). In 2002, he co-founded the Crisis Forum (www.crisis-forum.org.uk) with Mark Levene, a fellow academic at the University of Southampton. Surviving Climate Change: The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe, edited by Cromwell and Levene, was published in 2007 by Pluto.

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NEWSPEAK in the 21st Century
David Edwards and David Cromwell

Trade Paperback

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Pluto Press
September 2009
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780745328935
ISBN10: 0745328938
5 1/2 x 8 3 /4 inches, 304 pages
$26.00

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Pluto Press
September 2009
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780745328942
ISBN10: 0745328946
5 1/2 x 8 3 /4 inches, 304 pages
$75.00
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