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A Deep-Seated Longing Odd things happen when corporate journalists, selected for obedience and conformity, are exposed to powerful leaders speaking at grand…
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).
On the eve of the January 2005 elections in Iraq, Scott Peterson and Dan Murphy reported in the Christian Science Monitor: “the…
On May 25, one of us spent several minutes laughing on the phone with a friend of ours, an environmental journalist. We…
Part One In launching an emergency appeal for aid on July 24, the United Nations estimated that the lives of 800,000 Lebanese…
Traditionally, British media reporting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been heavily biased in favour of the United States’ major ally in the…
Squeaky Spleen – Beaumont Strikes Back In Parts 1 and 2 we analysed what Observer editor, Roger Alton, described as “a superb…
PART 1: A Gauntlet Is Thrown On June 16, the Observer’s editor Roger Alton made a bold announcement on his newspaper’s website:…
“It was in the springtime of his premiership that he became a pioneer for a foreign policy which did not see championing…
In Part 1 of this alert we showed how the mainstream media have been united in depicting Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as…
Controlling what we think is not solely about controlling what we know – it is also about controlling who we respect and…