The
Orwell Award Winners (1975 - 2008) Presented by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) The NCTE Orwell Award, established in 1975, has been given by the NCTE Public Doublespeak Committee (in 2006, this group was renamed the NCTE Public Language Committee) to recognize writers who have made outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse. (*) 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, M.D, author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror 2005 Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show" Cast 2004 Seymour Hersh, journalist (Abu Graib expose) and Arundhati Roy, author (on colonialist language) 2003 Susan Ohanian, creator of www.susanohanian.org - for its clarity, honesty, and eloquence. 2002 Bill Press, for Spin This 2001 Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, for Trust Us, We're Experts! 2000 Alfie Kohn, for The Schools Our Children Deserve 1999 Norman Solomon, for The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media 1998 Juliet Schor, for The Overspent American; (tie) Scott Adams, for Dilbert (syndicated cartoon, satirizing jargon) 1997 Gertrude Himmelfarb, for her essays on academic narcissism and doublespeak 1996 William Lutz, for The New Doublespeak 1995 Ed Herman (Editor), Lies of Our Times, magazine for social criticism 1994 Garry Trudeau, for Doonesbury (satirical commentary on political language) 1993 Eric Alterman, for Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics 1992 Donald Bartlett & James Steele, for America: What Went Wrong? 1991 David Kessler, FDA Commissioner, for leading major revisions in food labeling and health claims 1990 Charlotte Baecher, for Selling America's Kids: Commercial Pressures on Kids of the 90s 1989 Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman, for Manufacturing Consent:The Political Economy of the Mass Media 1988 Donald Bartlett & James Steele (Philadelphia Inquirer): for articles on language loopholes in the Tax Reform Act 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 & Kim Schroder, for The Language of Advertising 1984 Ted Koppel, ABC-TV Nightline moderator, for being "a model of intelligence, informed interest, social awareness, verbal fluency, fair and rigorous questioning of controversial figures...[who has sought] to raise the level of public discourse." 1983 Haig Bosmajian, for The Language of Oppression 1982 Stephen Hilgartner, Richard Bell & 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: Industry Propaganda in Schools 1979 Erving Goffman, for Gender Advertisements (sexism in advertising) 1978 Sissela Bok, for Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life 1977 Walter Pincus (Washington Post reporter) for his expose of the jargon and language obfuscating the neutron bomb 1976 Hugh Rank, for the "Intensify/Downplay schema" - a taxonomy & teaching aid to analyze persuasion and propaganda 1975 David Wise, for The Politics of Lying (about the CIA) * Since 1994, The Orwell Prizet, awarded by The Orwell Trust, has been the pre-eminent British prize for political writing. Two annual awards (a Book Prize and a Journalism Prize) 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’. |