Orwell Award
The NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language (short Orwell Award ) is a first time in 1975 and since then annually conferred essay prize of US English Teacher Association NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English). The award is given to journalists and writers who have made outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public opinion.
Award winners
- 2019: Michael P. Lynch , author of Know-It-All-Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture
- 2018: Katie Watson , author of The Scarlet A
- 2017: Richard Sobel , author of Citizenship as Foundation of Rights: Meaning for America
- 2016: David Greenberg , author of Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency
- 2015: Anthony Cody for his work The Educator and the Oligarch
- 2014: The Onion satirical magazine
- 2013: Paul L. Thomas , university professor. for its role in US education reform
- 2012: Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan , authors of Buried in the Sky
- 2011: FS Michaels , author of Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything
- 2010: Michael Pollan , author of Food Rules and the Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc.
- 2009: Amy Goodman , co-founder, executive director, and representative of Democracy Now!
- 2008: Charlie Savage , author of Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
- 2007: Ted Gup , author of Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life
- 2006: Steven H. Miles , MD, author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
- 2005: Jon Stewart and The Daily Show broadcast
- 2004: the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh and the writer Arundhati Roy
- 2002: Bill Press for Spin This!
- 2001: Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber for Trust Us, We're Experts !: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
- 2000: Alfie Kohn for The Schools Our Children Deserve
- 1999: Norman Solomon for The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media: Decoding Spin and Lies in the Mainstream News (Common Courage Press, 1999)
- 1998: Scott Adams for his role in Mission Impertinent (San Jose Mercury News West Magazine November 16, 1997;). The farce satirically targeted the absurdities of managerial jargon.
- 1998: Juliet B. Schor for The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer
- 1997: Gertrude Himmelfarb for "Professor Narcissus: In Today's Academy, Everything Is Personal," June 2, 1997, supplement to The Weekly Standard
- 1996: William D. Lutz for The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore
- 1995: Lies Of Our Times (LOOT)
- 1994: Garry Trudeau , creator of the Doonesbury comic strip , because it continually criticized doublespeak in US everyday life
- 1993: Eric Alterman : Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics
- 1992: Donald Barlett and James Steele of the Philadelphia Inquirer for America: What Went Wrong?
- 1991: David Aaron Kessler, Commissioner, Federal Food and Drug Administration .
- 1990: Charlotte Baecher , Consumers Union for Selling America's Kids: Commercial Pressures on Kids of the 90s
- 1989: Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky for Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
- 1988: Donald Barlett and James Steele of the Philadelphia Inquirer for a series of articles on the Tax Reform Act 1986
- 1987: Noam Chomsky for On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
- 1986: Neil Postman for Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
- 1985: Torben Vestergaard and Kim Schroder for The Language of Advertising
- 1984: Ted Koppel , host of the ABC network TV show Nightline
- 1983: Haig Bosmajian for The Language of Oppression
- 1982: Stephen Hilgartner , Richard C. Bell and Rory O'Connor for Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and Mindset
- 1981: Dwight Bolinger for Language - The Loaded Weapon
- 1980: Sheila Harty for Hucksters in the Classroom: A Review of Industry Propaganda in Schools
- 1979: Erving Goffman for Gender Advertisements
- 1978: Sissela Bok for Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
- 1977: Walter Pincus , Washington Post
- 1976: Hugh Rank for the "Intensify / Downplay" scheme for analyzing communication and propaganda
- 1975: David Wise for The Politics of Lying
Web links
- Official website (PDF; 576 kB)
- 'Doublespeak' Crusade report from the New York Times