[citation needed] After five months of training in geology, geophysics, and management skills, Cromwell was posted to Shell's exploration and production company in Assen, Netherlands, while living in nearby Groningen.
[4] At that time, he was appointed to a research post at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, but left academia in 2010 to work full-time on Media Lens.
[9] "Not unusually, one has to go to media such as" RT and Press TV "to find any coverage", Cromwell wrote in September 2016 (about the Yemeni civil war), which are "so often bitterly denigrated as 'propaganda' operations by corporate journalists".
The authors argue, with reference to examples from the press and broadcasting, that the mass media in Britain enable 'state-corporate'[11] power to pursue destructive aims at home and abroad.
Reviewing Propaganda Blitz in the International Journal of Communication, Alan MacLeod of Glasgow University described Cromwell and Edwards as "[t]wo of the most strident, long-standing and influential critics of the media".
[18] According to Paul Robert Bartrop, Steven Leonard Jacobs, it is a "consciousness-raising body that believes humankind is in serious trouble due to an economic and political system that is destroying its ability to sustain its existence.