New Media Awards 2008

Media Lens

http://www.medialens.org/

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

Media Lens is a response based on the conviction that mainstream newspapers and broadcasters provide a profoundly distorted picture of our world. They are convinced that the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media means that it acts as a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests. The costs incurred as a result of this propaganda, in terms of human suffering and environmental degradation, are incalculable.

1 nomination from readers

  • "I recommend a new website edited by... [writers David Edwards and David Cromwell], whose factual, inquiring analysis of the reporting of Iraq, Afghanistan and other issues has already drawn the kind of defensive spleen that shows how unused to challenge and accountability much of journalism, especially that calling itself liberal, has become. The address is www.MediaLens.org." John Pilger, New Statesman, March 22, 2002)

    "Regular critical analysis of the media, filling crucial gaps and correcting the distortions of ideological prisms, has never been more important. Media Lens has performed a major public service by carrying out this task with energy, insight, and care." Noam Chomsky

    "Media Lens is doing an outstanding job of pressing the mainstream media to at least follow their own stated principles and meet their public service obligations. It is fun as well as enlightening to watch their representatives, while sometimes giving straightforward answers to queries, often getting flustered, angry, evasive, and sometimes mis-stating the facts." Edward Herman

    It is AMAZING how Media lens' analysis has only one interest at heart - Universal Compassion.

    12 April 2008

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