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Last year, we described how mainstream climate sceptics had queued up to praise film-maker Martin Durkin’s now infamous documentary, The Great Global…
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).
If "The wages of sin is death", the returns must seem altogether less bleak to Tony Blair. In November, Blair was…
News that British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons had been jailed in Sudan after allowing her pupils to call a teddy bear Mohammed fed…
“See The World Through Their Eyes” (December 6, 2007)For several months now, non-UK visitors accessing the Guardian website have been shown an…
Last week’s peaceful protests at the Heathrow Camp for Climate Action (http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/) were a heartening sign of sanity in response to the…
The Obvious Interpretation In our July 23 alert, ‘From Blair to Brown – The Killing Will Continue,’ we described how the media…
The first truth of American foreign policy is that it is formulated to maximise corporate profits and state power. The second truth…
As we have previously reported* Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has long been demonised by the Western media as a ‘leftist firebrand’ (The…
On the May 14 edition of Newsnight, the BBC’s Mark Urban reported from Iraq that the US troop “surge” was an attempt…
Analytical Value Two days after a gunman shot dead 32 students and staff at an American college, Virginia Tech, on April 16,…