David Cromwell Biography
David Cromwell is a British oceanographer and media advocate. He co-edits the Media Lens website with David Edwards.
How old is David Cromwell? – Age
He is 61 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1962 in Glasgow.
David Cromwell Family – Education
His mother was a devout Catholic. He grew up in Barrhead and, principally, Cumbernauld before graduating from the University of Glasgow with a degree in physics and astronomy. Cromwell traveled to the United States in 1988 to conduct a year-long postdoctoral research at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, after earning a Ph.D. in solar physics from the same university in 1987.
David Cromwell Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
David Cromwell Books
Cromwell and Edwards collaborated on two books. The first of these, Guardians of Power: The Liberal Media Myth, was released by Pluto Press in 2006. The authors contend, using examples from the press and broadcasting, that the British mass media enable state-corporate’ power to achieve harmful goals at home and abroad. A similar strategy was taken in a later book, Newspeak in the Twenty-First Century, which was published in 2009.
Cromwell is the author of Private Planet (Charlbury: Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2001) and Why Are We the Good Guys? : Reclaiming Your Mind from Propaganda Delusions. Cromwell was praised as “one of the most incisive and humane radical writers working today” in a review for the Morning Star by Ian Sinclair.
David Cromwell The Crisis Forum
Cromwell co-founded the Crisis Forum in 2002 with historian Mark Levene. It is, according to Paul Robert Bartrop and Steven Leonard Jacobs, 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.” Surviving Climate Change: The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe, edited by Cromwell and Levene, was published by Pluto Press in 2007.
David Cromwell Career
Getting back to Europe, Cromwell joined Shell Worldwide in 1989 as an investigation geophysicist. Cromwell was sent to Shell’s exploration and production company in Assen, Netherlands, after receiving training in geology, geophysics, and management skills for five months while living in Groningen. In 1993, he left Shell. He was given a research position at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, at the time. However, in 2010, he left academia to work full-time on Media Lens.
Established in 2001 by Cromwell and David Edwards, Media Focal point is a media examination site which screens the transmission and the print media in the UK, endeavoring to show proof of predisposition, contortions and exclusions on such issues as environmental change, Iraq and the “battle on dread”. The “Propaganda Model” of media control proposed by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky is utilized by the Media Lens founders.
Oliver Kamm, a leading writer for The Times, has scathingly criticized Media Lens for its remarks regarding the genocide in Rwanda and the Srebrenica massacre, describing the organization as a “reliable conduit for denying genocide and whitewashing war crimes.” In 2006, Kamm stated that this was “a subject wholly outwith Cromwell’s competence” and questioned Cromwell’s reliance on American historian Howard Zinn and their knowledge of relevant source material regarding America’s atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In January 2008, David Cromwell wrote a response to Kamm’s piece on the subject. Cromwell wrote in September 2016 (about the Yemeni civil war) that “so often bitterly denigrated as ‘propaganda’ operations by corporate journalists” are the only places to find any coverage. This is not unusual.