The NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language (the Orwell Award for short), is an award given since 1975 by the Public Language Award Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English. It is awarded annually to "writers who have made outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse." Noam Chomsky, Donald Barlett, and James B. Steele are the only recipients to have won twice. Its negative counterpart, awarded by the same body, is the Doublespeak Award, "an ironic tribute to public speakers who have perpetuated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered." Winners 1970s 1975: David Wise for The Politics of Lying 1976: Hugh Rank for the "Intensify/Downplay" schema for analyzing communication, persuasion, and propaganda 1977: Walter Pincus, Washington Post "A patient, methodical journalist who knew his job and who knew the jargon of Washington. Mr. Pincus was the man responsible for bringing to public attention, and thus to a debate in the Senate, the appropriations funding for the neutron bomb."—Hugh Rank, chair, NCTE Committee on Public Doublespeak 1978: Sissela Bok for Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life 1979: Erving Goffman for Gender Advertisements 1980s 1980: Sheila Harty for Hucksters in the Classroom: A Review of Industry Propaganda in Schools 1981: Dwight Bolinger for Language--The Loaded Weapon 1982: Stephen Hilgartner, Richard C. Bell, and Rory O'Connor for Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and Mindset 1983: Haig Bosmajian for The Language of Oppression 1984: Ted Koppel, moderator, Nightline, ABC-TV. ". . . a model of intelligence, informed interest, social awareness, verbal fluency, fair and rigorous questioning of controversial figures. . . . [who has sought] honesty and openness, clarity and coherence, to raise the level of public discourse."—William Lutz, chair, NCTE Committee on Public Doublespeak 1985: Torben Vestergaard and Kim Schroder for The Language of Advertising 1986: Neil Postman for Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business 1987: Noam Chomsky for On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures 1988: Donald Barlett and James B. Steele, Philadelphia Inquirer for a series of articles on the Tax Reform Act of 1986, in which they pointed out language disguising tax loopholes in the legislation 1989: Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky for Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 1990s 1990: Charlotte Baecher, Consumers Union for Selling America's Kids: Commercial Pressures on Kids