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In our recent Media Alert, ‘Panorama and Guardian Editors Respond,’ (November 27, 2002), we mentioned a recent article by George Monbiot, titled,…
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).
As the war clouds continue to gather over the Gulf, the latest opinion polls show that fully 40% of the British electorate…
In response to our recent Media Alert – Our Pravda: The BBC, Panorama and Iraq (November 8, 2002) – we received these…
Media Lens has recently published several Media Alerts focusing on US/UK media coverage of Iraq, arms inspectors and the looming war (see…
The truth is that you don’t get very far in the mainstream media if you offend powerful interests. The BBC’s John Simpson…
Unique Threat – No.1: In April 1950, the US National Security Council Directive 68 (NSC68) stated: “The Soviet Union, unlike previous aspirants…
What A Difference 3 Years Makes: UK News Coverage of Why the Inspectors Left Iraq In 1998 and 1999 it was difficult…
Introduction To read the 34 short pages (pp.20-54) at the heart of former chief UN arms inspector Scott Ritter’s book, War On…
Pacifying people by passing over Western crimes and focusing laser-like on the crimes of demonised enemies is one thing. Infinitely more effective,…
Chemistry teachers have long delighted students by showing how near-perfect symmetrical structures can be produced by pouring a large number of small…