Guardians of Power Reviews

Though it bares media failure and under-performance, it has hardly been reviewed in mainstream media after it was published in January.   Guardians of Power: The myth of the Liberal Media by David Edwards and →

The rise of the Netizens   The death of Milosevic coincides with a book by David Edwards and David Cromwell who founded Media Lens, a website that monitors media accuracy. It is not necessary to →

David Edwards and David Cromwell (2005) Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media London: Pluto. 241 pages. ISBN 0-7453-2482-7. £14.99 paperback. David Edwards and David Cromwell are part of the Media Lens team →

GUARDIANS OF POWER David Edwards and David Cromwell Pluto Press, £14.99 Do you read the publishers’ names above this round-up? In this case it’s worth noticing Pluto Press, a crusading, left-leaning independent publisher, and commend →

Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media a.. By Jeff Sparrow April 29, 2006 A book that details the hypocrisy of the liberal media is commendable. Vice begets virtue: The Guardian’s hypocrisy is →

Who’s Watching the Media? By: Antony Loewenstein Media writer for the Washington Post, Howard Kurtz, recently argued that the Washington press corps was suffering its greatest crisis in living memory. Aside from uncritically accepting Bush →

Journalists in awe of power By Tapani Lausti Some time in the early 90s, a journalist called Annika Savill worked at the foreign desk of The Independent. I was always surprised how well I could relate →

Journalist John Pilger calls this “The most important book about journalism I can remember.” The authors also operate Media Lens, a critical thinking center and media watch group based in the U.K. Media Lens rigorously →

By James Hardy / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer “He suspects he’s becoming a dupe, the willing, febrile consumer of news fodder, opinion, speculation and of all the crumbs the authorities let fall. He’s a docile →

Jim Gilbert reviews Guardians of power: the myth of the liberal media Pluto Press, 2006, pp241, £14.99 Authors David Edwards and David Cromwell have done a great service in encapsulating the ways and wiles of →