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An ancient Roman aphorism made a crucial point: “The senators are good men, but the senate is a beast.” In the same…
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 March 27, Channel 4 News included a report by Washington Correspondent Jonathan Rugman: ‘Hugo to go?’ (http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=2046) Rugman relentlessly smeared Venezuelan…
Noam Chomsky once observed: “If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you’re doing something wrong.”(http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/pubs/gater/spring95/apr27/chom.htm) One indication that…
On March 27, Channel 4 News included a report by Washington Correspondent Jonathan Rugman: ‘Hugo to go?’ (http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=2046) Rugman relentlessly smeared Venezuelan…
“If we don’t know history, then we are ready meat for carnivorous politicians and the intellectuals and journalists who supply the carving…
On January 25 and 26, Media Lens published a two-part Media Alert: ‘Paved With Good Intentions – Iraq Body Count, Parts 1…
Body Shop founder, Anita Roddick, describes the view from the inside: “The language of business is not the language of the soul…
“There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom, for in that way one captures volition itself.”…
In Part 1 of this alert we reviewed Robert Fisk’s observation that "more and more people are trying to find a different…
On the rare occasions when the issue of civilian casualties is discussed in the mainstream media three words are invariably mentioned: Iraq…