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Do You Believe? At the beginning of every episode of the long running sci-fi series, The X-Files, viewers were shown the mysterious…
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).
Okay, We’ll Let Them Have A Government In January, we showed how the British print and broadcast media were all but unanimous…
Facing execution for his role in the murder of more than 1 million people, many of them children, Auschwitz commandant, Rudolf Hoess,…
"Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood – we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the…
On September 3, 1967 the New York Times reported that US officials "were surprised and heartened" at the size of turnout in…
It is one of the great ironies of our time that, as evidence of environmental catastrophe has inexorably mounted, so the visibility…
On January 21, we published a Rapid Response Media Alert, ‘Targeting Iran – The BBC Propaganda Begins,’ in which we noted that…
Iran – The Last Hurrah Writing in The New Yorker magazine this month, the renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported US…
Introduction – A Simple Question People sometimes tell us we’re too hard on the media. They say: ‘Come on, there +is+ a…
“Civilisation exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.” (Will Durant, historian) Festive Depression Curious things happen to the British public…