MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
October 4, 2005
MEDIA LENS APPEAL: THE FIRST MEDIA LENS BOOK - GUARDIANS OF POWER - AND A
REQUEST FOR SUPPORT
We are very pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the first
Media
Lens book: Guardians Of Power - The Myth Of The Liberal Media. (Pluto Press,
December 2005;
http://www.plutobooks.com/cgi-local/nplutobrows.pl?chkisbn=0745324827&main=&
second=&third=)
In his foreword to our book, John Pilger writes:
“The creators and editors of Medialens, David Edwards and David Cromwell,
have
had such influence in a short time that, by holding to account those who, it
is
said, write history’s draft, they may well have changed the course of modern
historiography. They have certainly torn up the ‘ethical blank cheque’,
which
Richard Drayton referred to [in the Guardian], and have exposed as morally
corrupt ‘the right to bomb, to maim, to imprison without trial...’. Without
Medialens during the attack on and occupation of Iraq, the full gravity of
that
debacle might have been consigned to oblivion, and to bad history.
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