David Cromwell is a Scottish writer, activist and oceanographer at
the National Oceanography Centre in Britain. He and David Edwards are Media Lens.org co-editors.
It's an antidote to misinformation. It critiques mainstream media propaganda, bias and censorship. It provides credible facts, opinion, and in-depth analysis on issues mattering most.
It's what journalism should be but isn't in an age of mass deception. People are on their own to separate truth from fiction. Media Lens provides help.
Both writers co-authored "NEWSPEAK in the 21st Century
" and "Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media
." They explain what everyone needs to know. Media reliability along with free and open societies are at risk.
Dissent is marginalized and targeted. Democratic values are fast eroding en route to disappearing altogether in Western societies and Israel.
Raising public awareness more than ever is vital. Independent voices are essential. So is speaking truth to power and spreading it to mass audiences.
Doing it isn't easy. Dark forces are menacing. They don't take kindly to airing ugly facts they want suppressed. Doing so gets people targeted.
Journalist/author AJ Liebling once said "The press is free only to those who own one." He also warned that "People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."
Read more: http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2012/10/21/good-guys-we-re-not#more22967
It's an antidote to misinformation. It critiques mainstream media propaganda, bias and censorship. It provides credible facts, opinion, and in-depth analysis on issues mattering most.
It's what journalism should be but isn't in an age of mass deception. People are on their own to separate truth from fiction. Media Lens provides help.
Both writers co-authored "NEWSPEAK in the 21st Century
" and "Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media." They explain what everyone needs to know. Media reliability along with free and open societies are at risk.Dissent is marginalized and targeted. Democratic values are fast eroding en route to disappearing altogether in Western societies and Israel.
Raising public awareness more than ever is vital. Independent voices are essential. So is speaking truth to power and spreading it to mass audiences.
Doing it isn't easy. Dark forces are menacing. They don't take kindly to airing ugly facts they want suppressed. Doing so gets people targeted.
Journalist/author AJ Liebling once said "The press is free only to those who own one." He also warned that "People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."
Read more: http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2012/10/21/good-guys-we-re-not#more22967
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