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“The thoughts of wealth and glory that arise first are like poison ivy: they harm merely by a touch, enchanting and paralysing…
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).
In a recent Media Alert (Why Even Talk About It? Part 1, April 4, 2003) we reported that the BBC’s leading current…
Iraq is quickly sliding down the order of news stories on our TVs and front pages – the fate of the Iraqi…
The fact is that they are deceitful with no wish to deceive, not like Machiavellians, but with no consciousness of their deceit,…
“This war is un-American”, writes Jonathan Freedland of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Guardian. America, after all, “still sees itself as the…
Man Plus It’s Cartoon Time on ITN’s Evening News. From a computer-generated street in Baghdad, a radiating signal from US ‘special forces’…
On April 9, a US tank recovery vehicle tightened a metal rope and a statue of Saddam Hussein came crashing down in…
In researching our latest New Statesman article (April 7, 2003), David Edwards interviewed George Entwistle (March 31, 2003), editor of the BBC’s…
“Isn’t it in fact true that America, by dint of the very accuracy of the weapons we’ve seen, is the only potential…
Niche Killing It’s hard to believe that a little more than one week ago, the Iraqi regime, facing imminent attack, was meekly…