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Government Attacks On The BBC Reflect Government Totalitarianism Not BBC Radicalism Absent Furores It is clear that the British government’s attacks on…
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).
The ‘Nut’ Theory Of Dissident Journalism Because dissident arguments are almost never seen in the mainstream media, they often strike the reader…
Moral Tourism And The Killing It is an elementary truism that suffering caused by our own government should be of far greater…
Among The Knowledgeable The media have erupted with outrage at the allegation that Tony Blair “duped” the public and parliament into fighting…
In a recent Media Alert, ‘Grit Your Teeth – Basic Surgery In “Liberated” Iraq’ (May 16, 2003), Media Lens invited readers to…
Menem, for example, was openly announcing severe repressive measures in his TV adverts. Lpez Murphy the neoliberal candidate that the media invented…
In a recent Media Alert, ‘Killings At Falluja – The BBC Tells One Side Of The Story’ (April 29, 2003), we reported…
You would not be mistaken if you have noticed that there is a certain harshness about mainstream corporate journalists, their reporting and…
“In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim high.” (Thoreau) Friendly Fascism In the…
A reporter who first comes up with an investigative story idea, writes it up and submits it to the editor and is…