In an interview this week on Talk TV, Piers Morgan subjected Jeremy Corbyn to an extraordinary barrage of questioning: ‘Are Hamas a…
David Edwards
David Edwards (born 1962) is a British media campaigner who is co-editor of the Media Lens website. Edwards specialises in the analysis of mainstream, or corporate, mass media, which are normally considered impartial or liberal, an interpretation he believes is disputable. He authored articles published in The Independent, The Times, Red Pepper, New Internationalist, Z Magazine, The Ecologist, Resurgence, The Big Issue; monthly ZNet commentator; author of Free To Be Human – Intellectual Self-Defence in an Age of Illusions (Green Books, 1995) published in the United States as Burning All Illusions (South End Press, 1996: www.southendpress.org), and The Compassionate Revolution – Radical Politics and Buddhism (1998, Green Books).
In an interview this week on Talk TV, Piers Morgan subjected Jeremy Corbyn to an extraordinary barrage of questioning: ‘Are Hamas a terror group?…
An authentic democracy cannot be psychopathic because most people are not psychopaths. Most people would not vote to kill, wound and displace…
In the second decade of the 21st century, after much empty talk of ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’,…
None of us has previously witnessed a barrage of extreme weather events of the kind that has been devastating lives across the globe this…
Why are we at Media Lens utterly terrified by climate collapse while other people we know are mildly concerned, blithely indifferent or…
The death of novelist and essayist Martin Amis on 19 May triggered a ‘mainstream’ wave, not just of admiration, but of adoration.…
In a society built on lies, the search for truth is a game. Consider the debate surrounding alleged ‘threats’ to the BBC’s…
The 20th anniversary of the illegal, unprovoked US-UK war of aggression on Iraq comes at an awkward time for a UK press…
If we were to choose a hill to die on, it would probably not be in defence of a British prince. In…
