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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."

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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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