Media Lens is a media monitoring outfit that takes journalists and broadcasters to task for misrepresentation, omissions, and otherwise colouring the truth. They are believers in Chomsky's Propaganda Model of the media, that the corporate media, as profit-driven institutions, tend to serve and further the agendas of the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society - and "Media Lens" shows how this plays out in practice through their dialogues with individuals from (especially) the BBC, the "Guardian" and the "Independent", which they reproduce with commentary in their regular 'media alerts', which are sent out by email to their subscriber list and also posted on their web site.

About the Author

David Edwards is co-founder/co-editor of Media Lens (www.medialens.org) for which he works full-time. He is author of Free to be Human (1995), The Compassionate Revolution (1998) and co-author of Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media (Pluto, 2006). David Cromwell is co-founder / co-editor of Media Lens (www.medialens.org) and a researcher at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. He is author of Private Planet (2001) and co-author of Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media (Pluto, 2006). In 2002, he co-founded the Crisis Forum (www.crisis-forum.org.uk) with fellow Southampton academic Mark Levene. Surviving Climate Change: The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe, edited by Cromwell and Levene, was published in 2007 by Pluto.

Reviews

Not since Orwell and Chomsky has perceived reality been so skilfully revealed in the cause of truth. -- John Pilger 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 ... It is fun as well as enlightening to watch their representatives ... often getting flustered, angry, evasive, and sometimes mistating the facts. This won't change the media very much, but it will make them a bit more careful and honest, and it will help educate the public, which will have its own useful spinoff. -- Edward S. Herman In telling us the unvarnished truth, Media Lens is the best thing to happen to the British media for as long as I can remember. -- John Pilger