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In Part 1 of this Media Alert we described some of the horrific reality of the Reagan years for the people of…
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).
Towards A Compassionate Mass Media In considering the development of honest media, we begin from the premise that truth telling should be…
On February 4, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger emailed us the following challenge: “Dear David, I continue to be very pressed. You make…
In January an inquiry presided over by Lord Hutton determined that a report by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan had been “unfounded”. Last…
West Is Best? Writing in the Daily Mirror on April 22, Tony Parsons raged at the brutal killing of four American security…
Target Rich Slums Sniping specialists say of Falluja that there may not have been such a “target rich” battlefield for that kind…
MEDIA ALERT UPDATE: THE GUARDIAN’S SPARK EDITOR RESPONDS On April 6, we published a Media Alert, ‘Rolling Deeply In The Dust’. We…
On April 10, details emerged from aid agencies and hospital sources that fully 600 Iraqis had been killed and 1700 injured in…
The truth about the invasion of Iraq was perhaps best summed up by Ray McGovern, one of the CIA’s most senior analysts:…
People Pay The Price For Realpolitik Before last year’s war on Iraq, Media Lens reported the extraordinary level of establishment opposition to…