NCTE Orwell Award 2011
F.S. Michaels' Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything is an intriguing look at the concept of monoculture-the development of particular patterns of life or a master story that shows up again and again and creates a potentially invisible structure within our culture that shapes our sense of how the world works. As one online reviewer put it so well: "In Monoculture, F.S. Michaels methodically lays out how our societal worldview has been slowly overtaken by a single story - the story of economics. From education and the arts to how we eat, think, and play, Michaels asserts that we have been steeped in a single point of view where value is reduced to what can be sold and worth is determined by financial expediency. Michaels' writing is clear and sharp as she brings the impact of this pervasive global philosophy down to the personal level, showing how it affects our lives in the everyday."; Michaels describes herself as "a deep generalist"; - someone who looks for unexpected patterns and connections across a broad range of cultural systems, organizations, and human interactions-we are pleased that she brought this pattern to our attention.
PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS
2010
Michael Pollan, author of Food Rules and the Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc.
2009
Amy Goodman, co-founder, executive producer, and host 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, M.D, author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
2005
Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show" Cast
2004
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh and Writer Arundhati Roy
2003
Susan Ohanian
2002
Bill Press
2001
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
2000
Alfie Kohn
1999
Norman Solomon
The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media: Decoding Spin and Lies in the Mainstream News (published by
Common Courage Press, 1999)
1998
Scott Adams and Juliet B. Schor
1997
Gertrude Himmelfarb
1996
William Lutz
The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore
1995
Lies of Our Times (LOOT): A Magazine to Correct the Record
1994
Garry Trudeau
1993
Eric Alterman
1992
Donald Barlett and James Steele
1991
David A. Kessler, Commissioner, Federal Food and Drug Administration
1990
Charlotte Baecher, Consumers Union
Selling America's Kids: Commercial Pressures on Kids of the 90s
1989
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
1988 Donald Barlett and James Steele
1987
Noam Chomsky
On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
1986
Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
1985
Torben Vestergaard and Kim Schroder
The Language of Advertising
1984
Ted Koppel, moderator, "Nightline"
1983
Haig Bosmajian
The Language of Oppression
1982
Stephen Hilgartner, Richard C. Bell, and Rory O'Connor
Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions, and Mindset
1981
Dwight Bolinger
Language--The Loaded Weapon
1980
Sheila Harty
Hucksters in the Classroom: A Review of Industry Propaganda in Schools
1979
Erving Goffman
Gender Advertisements
1978
Sissela Bok
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
1977
Walter Pincus, Washington Post
1976
Hugh Rank
1975
David Wise
The Politics of Lying
PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS
2010
Michael Pollan, author of Food Rules and the Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc.
2009
Amy Goodman, co-founder, executive producer, and host 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, M.D, author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
2005
Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show" Cast
2004
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh and Writer Arundhati Roy
2003
Susan Ohanian
2002
Bill Press
2001
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
2000
Alfie Kohn
1999
Norman Solomon
The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media: Decoding Spin and Lies in the Mainstream News (published by
Common Courage Press, 1999)
1998
Scott Adams and Juliet B. Schor
1997
Gertrude Himmelfarb
1996
William Lutz
The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore
1995
Lies of Our Times (LOOT): A Magazine to Correct the Record
1994
Garry Trudeau
1993
Eric Alterman
1992
Donald Barlett and James Steele
1991
David A. Kessler, Commissioner, Federal Food and Drug Administration
1990
Charlotte Baecher, Consumers Union
Selling America's Kids: Commercial Pressures on Kids of the 90s
1989
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
1988 Donald Barlett and James Steele
1987
Noam Chomsky
On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
1986
Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
1985
Torben Vestergaard and Kim Schroder
The Language of Advertising
1984
Ted Koppel, moderator, "Nightline"
1983
Haig Bosmajian
The Language of Oppression
1982
Stephen Hilgartner, Richard C. Bell, and Rory O'Connor
Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions, and Mindset
1981
Dwight Bolinger
Language--The Loaded Weapon
1980
Sheila Harty
Hucksters in the Classroom: A Review of Industry Propaganda in Schools
1979
Erving Goffman
Gender Advertisements
1978
Sissela Bok
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
1977
Walter Pincus, Washington Post
1976
Hugh Rank
1975
David Wise
The Politics of Lying
Submitted on January 7, 2012 in By David.