George Orwell Award

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George Orwell Award

HONOR

Awarded by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Committee on Public Doublespeak to "writers who have made outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse."

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Scott Adams Cartoonist 8-Jun-1957 Creator, Dilbert

Eric Alterman Columnist 14-Jan-1960 The Nation columnist

Donald Barlett Journalist 17-Jul-1936 Barlett & Steele

Sissela Bok Scholar 2-Dec-1934 Ethicist

Noam Chomsky Linguist 7-Dec-1928 Linguist, dissident intellectual

Seymour Hersh Journalist 8-Apr-1937 Uncovered the My Lai Massacre

Gertrude Himmelfarb Historian 8-Aug-1922 Victorian Minds

Tony Judt Historian 2-Jan-1948 6-Aug-2010 Postwar

Ted Koppel Journalist 8-Feb-1940 Nightline

William D. Lutz Linguist ? Doublespeak

Walter Pincus Journalist 24-Dec-1932 Washington Post reporter with CIA ties

Arundhati Roy Author 24-Nov-1961 The God of Small Things

Norman Solomon Critic 1952 Media critic

James Steele Journalist 3-Jan-1943 Barlett & Steele

Jon Stewart Comic 28-Nov-1962 Anchor of The Daily Show

Garry Trudeau Cartoonist 21-Jul-1948 Doonesbury

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