e-mail to MEDIA WORKERS AGAINST THE WAR RE: Flat Earth News and Guardians of Power

Dear Media Workers Against the War,

I’d like to thank you for your article “Author under fire over Iraq exposé” about “A campaign is afoot to suppress the brilliant new book Flat Earth News by award-winning journalist Nick Davies analysing the media’s collective failure on Iraq.”

You conclude your article with a call to the anti-war movement: “The anti-war movement must get behind its author”.

I agree. The anti-war movement should always get behind those who expose the responsibility of the so-called mainstream media in spreading the propaganda that makes wars and crimes against humanity inevitable.

There is another book I believe the anti-war movement should get behind, GUARDIANS OF POWER The Myth of the Liberal Media, by David Edwards and David Cromwell

John Pilger called it “the most important book about journalism I can remember.”

Incredibly (but not surprisingly) Guardians of Power has been completely ignored by the UK mainstream media. If “a campaign is afoot to suppress the brilliant new book Flat Earth News”, I would not hesitate to call what’s happened to Guardians of Power, ostracism.

I would like to kindly invite you to take into consideration Guardians of Power now that Flat Earth News seems to have opened a debate on this important issue and discuss Edwards-Cromwell’s book in your future articles, meetings and debates.

Thank you for all your work.

Best wishes,
Gabriele Zamparini
London