Newspeak Reviews

Newspeak in the 21st century. By Media Lens authors David Edwards and David Cromwell We re now nine years into our ‘War on Terror’. Confidence in entire categories of establishment figures is approaching meltdown, (politicians, →

Newspeak in the 21st Century By David Edwards and David CromwellLondon, UK: Pluto Press, 2009. 304 pp.ISBN: 9780745328935. This book is a hatchet job. Granted, it is detailed and precise and no doubt accurate, and →

By David McQueen This may be the only review you will read of Edwards and Cromwell’s new book Newspeak in the 21st Century. Their last important challenge to the corporate media Guardians of Power(2006) was never mentioned, let →

Independent media is like the myth of ‘flat earth’ theory By Dr Vaidehi Nathan Newspeak in the 21st Century, David Edwards and David Cromwell, Pluto Press, Pp 299 (PB), price not mentioned WE have heard →

31 March 2010 Journalism’s Servility to Power By Tapani Lausti As the latest NATO “surge” in Afghanistan progresses with the inevitable “regrettable” civilian casualties, the BBC is there following uncritically the military operation. No one critical →

by NATHANIEL MEHR SPECIAL TO THE BRUNEI TIMES LONDON DAVIDS Edwards and Cromwell are co-editors of Media Lens, an online journal dedicated to scrutinising mainstream media outlets and exposing bias and misinformation. Across the narrow →

Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi Professor of Economics Università Europea di Roma Rome, Italy Does the crisis of the press in general and of the printed press in particular have as one of its determinants in →

Attack of the Clones By Max Dunbar Newspeak in the 21st Century, David Edwards and David Cromwell, Pluto, 2009 There are now loads of popular internet sites purporting to expose the mendacity of the mainstream media →

by Stephen Poole This book from the editors of the Medialens website is not really about “Newspeak”, but offers a miscellany of detailed criticism of mainstream reporting on issues such as the Iraq war, Israel/Palestine, →

Through a lens darkly Newspeak is from the men behind media watchdog Media Lens. The book’s focus is primarily on the liberal arm of mainstream media, The Guardian, Independent, Channel 4 News and the BBC, →