The Media Standards Trust

About the Media Standards Trust

The Media Standards Trust is an independent registered charity that aims to find ways to foster the highest standards of excellence in news journalism and ensure public trust in news is nurtured.

A perusal of their board members raises a few questions. Such as why Common Purpose are involved:




The Media Standards Trust are also involved in The Orwell Prize, which is

the pre-eminent British prize for political writing. There are two annual awards: a Book Prize and a Journalism Prize. They are awarded to the book, and for the journalism, which is judged to have best achieved George Orwell’s aim to ‘make political writing into an art’.

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The prizes are intended to encourage writing and thinking in this tradition. Clear, elegant expression, original ideas and hard argument about political issues that communicate to a wide audience are looked for. Style matters and content matters. The definition of politics is broad, and can include political and moral dilemmas, ideas and history, as well as issues in public policy, social and cultural concerns, in both fiction and non-fiction. The ambition of the prizes is to reward, celebrate and promote work that helps nurture the discussion of politics and that contributes to the quality of public life.

Which is all well and good until you find out about some of the people running this award, such as, Eric Hobsbawn who is an unreconstructed hard left Marxist, Polly Tonybee , who is a left wing Guardianista supporter of the Labour Party.There is also Bernard Crick, who started the Orwell Prize with the proceeds from his book "Orwell: A Life". Mr Crick is a left wing socialist and was advisor to Neil Kinnock during the 1980s.

Of course, that Orwell wrote on the folly of socialism and why it is such a dangerously bad idea, seems to have escaped the minds of these irony deficient leftists.