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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).
Samples From An Ocean Of Suffering In 1992 a group of neuroscientists travelled to India to research the effects of meditation. In…
The American philosopher Henry David Thoreau once wrote: "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a…
Terrible ironies attend the use of violence for political ends. Despite their ostensible opposition, two warring factions are often united in their…
Terrible ironies attend the use of violence for political ends. Despite their ostensible opposition, two warring factions are often united in their…
The Real News We have to admit that our attention was elsewhere when Michael Smith published his Sunday Times article on the…
At the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal in 1946, Nazi leaders like Goering, von Ribbentrop, Jodl and Streicher were sentenced to death by…
Just over one year ago, British journalists and politicians were fulminating over photographs published in the Daily Mirror that appeared to show…
“Professional journalism relies heavily on official sources. Reporters have to talk to the PM’s official spokesperson, the White House press secretary, the…
The BBC’s political editor, Andrew Marr, said last week of the publishing of the Attorney General’s March 7, 2003 advice on the…