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In Part 1 of this alert we reviewed Robert Fisk’s observation that "more and more people are trying to find a different…
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).
Robert Fisk On The British Media – Part 1 In the 1960s, psychologist Lester Luborsky used a camera to track the eye…
On October 20, 2005, we published a Media Alert, ‘Real Men Go To Tehran,’ http://www.medialens.org/alerts/05/051020_real_men_go_to_tehran.php We detailed media reactions after an anonymous…
Introduction – Factory Labels The most effective way to control people is to control their assumptions about the world. The task of…
In his classic book, The Sane Society, published in 1955, psychologist Erich Fromm proposed that, not just individuals, but entire societies “may…
Introduction On November 4, we published a Media Alert, ‘Smearing Chomsky’, detailing the Guardian’s October 31 interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma…
Introduction On October 31, the Guardian published an interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma Brockes, ‘The greatest intellectual?’ (The Guardian, October 31,…
The Roman historian Tacitus observed: "Crime once exposed has no refuge but in audacity." What better example than Tony Blair’s declaration at…
Writing on the BBC’s website last month, World Affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds observed that George Bush was struggling to turn Iraq into…