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October 7 – Like Them, We Cry! On September 11 this year, the media came together in sombre reflection on the…
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).
“Criticism of foreign policies is certainly possible, and normal, but within narrow limits which show ‘exceptions’ to, or ‘mistakes’ in, promoting the…
The mass media often seems reasonable, insightful, compassionate and critical of power. To read the Independent or Guardian every day is to…
The one truth that cries out to be heard as a result of everything we now know about the invasion of Iraq…
Writing in the Guardian, Peter Singer, a leading figure in the animal rights movement, describes the confrontation between animal rights activists and…
The statistics of death in Baghdad are now ‘beyond shame’, Robert Fisk writes in the Independent. In the first three weeks of…
“The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or…
“Q. You’re married? A. Right. Q. Children? A. Two. Q. How old? A. The boy is two and a half, and the…
“It is a bitter irony of source journalism,” historian Walter Karp once noted, “that the most esteemed journalists are precisely the most…
The stakes are high for anyone willing to pit their capacity for independent, rational thought against the media’s version of the world.…