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The Strain Behind The Smile A Los Angeles Times editorial observed last month that China had persuaded world leaders to attend…
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).
Bad Form In his classic work, Obedience to Authority, psychologist Stanley Milgram observed: “There is always some element of bad…
On June 28 and July 3, Media Lens received repeated threats of both legal and police action from Alastair Brett, legal manager…
When George Bush arrived in Britain last week as part of his "farewell tour", the real reasons for the visit were buried…
The Rules Of The Game The psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan once commented on "how suavely we simply ignore great bodies of experience,…
On May 1, the BBC website reported an attack on Somalia with the words: "Air raid kills Somali militants." One…
In the wake of the July 7, 2005 London bombings, the Independent’s John Rentoul commented: “A Muslim friend of mine in the…
On March 22, an Economist magazine editorial described the recent violence in Tibet as a "colonial uprising", a "revolt" against foreign occupation.…
Swallowing The Kennel Nick Davies’s latest book, Flat Earth News, is a “no-holds-barred assault on the British media,” according to Michael Savage…
The death of the former Indonesian dictator, Suharto, on January 27 could have unleashed a flood of revelations detailing British and American…