Blogs

In January 2009 we decided to archive the blogs as they were not being updated regularly. But they are archived here as a useful resource.

Sharon Beder
Sharon Beder is author of several books on environmental politics and corporate power including: Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda, forthcoming; Environmental Principles and Policies", forthcoming; Power Play: The Fight to Control the World's Electricity, Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR, Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism Read Blog

David Cromwell

David Cromwell was born in Glasgow in 1962. He is a researcher in ocean circulation at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. In 2001, he co-founded Media Lens with David Edwards. He is the author of 'Private Planet: Corporate Plunder and the Fight Back'. David lives in Southampton with his partner and two sons. Read Blog

Mark Curtis

Mark Curtis is the author of several books on UK and US foreign policy and international development issues, most recently Unpeople: Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses and Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World. He is the Director of the World Development Movement and a former Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). Read Blog

David Edwards

I work full-time as co-editor of Media Lens. I've written two books - Free To Be Human published in the United States as Burning All Illusions, and The Compassionate Revolution. I also write for the New Statesman and am a regular ZNet Commentator. I am fascinated by an idea proposed by Master Aro: "On this depends my liberation: to assist others - nothing else." Read Blog

Richard Keeble
Richard Keeble was appointed Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln in April 2003 after teaching 19 years at City University, London. His publications include Secret State, Silent Press: New Militarism, the Gulf and the Modern Image of Warfare and The Newspapers Handbook. He is also the editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. Richard is also a member of the War and Media Network.
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David Miller
David Miller is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Geography and Sociology at Strathclyde university in Glasgow. He is co-Editor of Spinwatch. Recent books include: Arguments Against G8, London, Tell Me lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq, Open Scotland? Journalists, Spin Doctors and Lobbyists, Market Killing: What Capitalism does and what Social Scientists can do about it. Read Blog