[2] Reprinted within it are email exchanges with editors and journalists from the main terrestrial British broadcasters, plus The Guardian and The Independent newspapers.
[2] "This book provides a snapshot of the two Davids' guerrilla campaigning over the past five years," wrote Brendan O'Neill in The Spectator.
[3] Peter Wilby concluded his New Statesman review in January 2006 with the comment that "All journalists should read [this book], because the Davids make a case that demands to be answered".
[4] He felt the book had some flaws, in particular he objected to their suggestion "that properly radical papers should refuse, say, airline ads.
[3] According to Jeff Sparrow, writing for The Age in 2006, despite possessing "something of the child's naive obstinacy in the authors' refusal to accept the journalistic practices at which most people cynically shrug", within Guardians of Power, Edwards and Cromwell "expose the fundamental contradiction between, on the one hand, our need for information about the world and, on the other, the need of media conglomerates to deliver returns to their shareholders".