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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).
On September 28, Tony Blair once again lied to the British public on the BBC’s “Breakfast With Frost” program, saying of Saddam:…
No links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, no weapons of mass destruction, and now no question that the invasion of Iraq has…
Following the killing of 27 people including 19 Italian troops in Nassiriya on November 12, Channel 4 News presenter, Jon Snow, asked…
We receive many interesting, even amazing, responses to our work from the mainstream media. Journalist John Sweeney recently published a letter in…
“The fateful slumber floats and flowsAbout the tangle of the rose;But lo! the fated hand and heartTo rend the slumberous curse apart!”(William…
Access Denied A key role of the mass media is to prevent the public from achieving a ‘big picture’ understanding of how…
On ITN’s Lunchtime News, political editor Nick Robinson described how “hundreds of [British] servicemen are risking their lives to bring peace and…
In the aftermath of September 11, the media reported endlessly on the likely identities and motives of those responsible, on the options…
Mrs Hardy: “And how is Mrs Laurel?” Stanley: “Oh, fine thank you.” Mrs Hardy: “I’d love to meet her some time.” Stanley:…