Guardians of Power Reviews

Interview with Christos Xanthakis , media editor of “Eleftherotypia”, the biggest newspaper in Greece with a circulation of 180,000 and a readership of one million. The original article in Greek can be found here: http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=51918 →

The Mass Media – Neutral, Honest, Psychopathic Another helpful attitude is one of deep distrust. Since most of what we hear is either plainly untrue, or half true and half distorted, and since most of →

Reviewing David Cromwell and David Edwards’ “Guardians of Power” David Cromwell is a Scottish writer, activist and oceanographer at the National Oceanography Centre in Britain. David Edwards is also a UK writer who focuses on →

Alternative Arguments Owain Wilkins Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media David Edwards and David Cromwell Pluto Press, £45 (hb) £14.99 (pb) Review first appeared in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist (June/July 2007) In →

Richard Jennings Business and government work hand in glove. Governments need business for the wealth that it creates or brings into the country, and for the contributions it makes to the elections which keep politicians →

Media: Media Lens writers cast doubt on the liberal credentials of news organisations ‘The most important book about journalism I can remember” is how John Pilger describes Guardians of Power in the foreword. To supporters, →

Putting the media under the scanner Arvind Sivaramakrishnan A book on the mainstream media shows how there is a widespread sense among professional journalists that the world is as the powerful and the wealthy say →

Review by Martin Tierney The Herald Guardians of Power David Edwards and David Cromwell Pluto Press £14.99 This study by Media Lens, an organisation founded by Edwards and Cromwell ‘dedicated to challenging the distorted vision →

Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media By David Edwards and David Cromwell Pluto Press, 241 pp, €22.50 It is unusual to agree with everything one reads in their daily newspaper and there →

Guardians of Power: Journalists as liberal dupes or corporate worse? By Adam Samuel Hamilton Smyth Posted: May 23, 2006 A journalist’s first obligation is to the truth; or so the old adage goes. Journalists are →