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Respective Positions On The Media And Power (Continued) John Pilger – An Epic Silence Readers of our Media Alerts will be well…
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).
By way of a splendid coincidence, Media Lens received this delayed response from the BBC on November 3: "I am writing in…
Introduction Tomorrow, December 2, the peace group A Call For Light is organising a peaceful vigil outside the BBC, Bush House, Aldwych,…
“There is not a single surgeon in Falluja. We had one ambulance hit by US fire and a doctor wounded. There are…
On November 8 and 11 we published two Media Alerts: ‘Legitimising Mass Slaughter in Fallujah,’ in which we commented on the bias…
The Nicest Guys You Can Imagine In their film, The Corporation, Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan describe how in the…
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the public alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing…
“We’ll unleash the dogs of hell, we’ll unleash ’em… They don’t even know what’s coming – hell is coming. If there are…
Introduction – Pacifying The Population In 1984, Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead described how “demonstration elections” are “organised and staged by a…
On February 16, 2003, Tony Blair responded to the biggest protest march in Britain’s history the previous day: “Yes, there are consequences…