David Cromwell

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David Cromwell (born 1962) is a British media campaigner and

oceanographer. With David Edwards, he is a co-editor of the Media Lens
website.

Cromwell was born in Glasgow. His mother was a practicing Catholic.

postdoctoral research at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder
, Colorado.

Returning to Europe, Cromwell joined

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
, United Kingdom, but left academia in 2010 to work full-time on Media Lens.

Founded in 2001 by Cromwell and David Edwards, Media Lens is a media analysis website which monitors the broadcast and the print media in the UK,

Propaganda Model' of media control advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky.[6]

Journalist

Yemeni civil war), which are "so often bitterly denigrated as 'propaganda' operations by corporate journalists".[10]

Cromwell has written a number of books with Edwards. The earliest of these, titled

Glasgow University described Cromwell and Edwards as "[t]wo of the most strident, long-standing and influential critics of the media".[12][13]

As a solo author, Cromwell has written Private Planet (Charlbury: Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2001) and

Morning Star, described Cromwell as "one of the most incisive and humane radical writers working today".[15]

Together with historian Mark Levene,[16] Cromwell founded the Crisis Forum,[17] in 2002.[18] According to Paul Robert Bartrop, Steven Leonard Jacobs, it is a "consciousness-raising body that believes humankind is in serious trouble due to an economic and political system that is destroying its ability to sustain its existence."[16] Cromwell and Levene edited a collection of essays, Surviving Climate Change: The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe, which was published by Pluto Press in, 2007.[19]

References

  1. ISBN 978-1780993652
  2. ^ Cromwell Why are We the Good Guys, p.5, 7
  3. ^ "David Cromwell". Zero Books. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  4. ^ Cromwell Why Are We the Good Guys, p.28
  5. ^ Neil Clark "The Left vs. the Liberal Media", The American Conservative, 15 May 2013
  6. ^ Stated objective of Media Lens Archived 6 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Oliver Kamm "Srebrenica, Trnopolje and the Deniers" Archived 19 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, TimesOnline, 30 November 2009
  8. ^ Oliver Kamm "Howard Zinn: Accused of failing to research the claims he makes about Hiroshima", entry from Kamm's blog reproduced on the George Mason University History News Network website, 13 December 2006
  9. ^ David Cromwell "Racing Towards The Abyss: The U.S. Atomic Bombing of Japan", Media Lens, 15 January 2008. (Last updated 9 April 2013)
  10. ^ Cromwell, David (13 September 2016). "Menwith Menace: Britain's Complicity In Saudi Arabia's Terror Campaign Against Yemen". Media Lens. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  11. ^ For an explanation of this term, see for example Noam Chomsky "The State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival", Chomsky..info website, 7 April 2011
  12. ^ MacLeod, Alan (2019). "Book Review". International Journal of Communication. 13: 765–767. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  13. ISBN 978-0-7453-3811-8
    . Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  14. ^ Sally Churchward "Is this the most controversial book of the 21st century?" Southern Daily Echo (Southampton), 28 January 2013
  15. ^ Ian Sinclair "Why Are We The Good Guys? Reclaiming Your Mind From The Delusions Of Propaganda" Archived 7 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Morning Star, 25 November 2012
  16. ^ a b Paul Robert Bartrop, Steven Leonard Jacobs Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2011, p.192
  17. ^ "Who We Are", Crisis Forum website
  18. ^ "Climate Change and Violence workshop series 2008 – 2012", Crisis Forum website
  19. ^ Garry W. Tromby "Book Reviews: Surviving Climate Change", Environmental Conservation, 35:2, June 2008, pp 187–188, 187. This source erroneously substitutes 'Martin' for 'Mark'.

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