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When order and symmetry manifest in the natural world in the absence of conscious design, we feel a sense of wonder –…
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).
A current Peugeot advert depicts an Indian driver in a dusty, impoverished village smashing his wreck of a car – what appears…
It is ironic that when politicians hail the urgent need to defend ourdemocratic traditions, their words are generally communicated by giantmedia corporations,…
Two possible options were immediately obvious in the aftermath of the appalling atrocities of September 11: we could seek to identify and…
Media Lens recently challenged Robert Moore, ITN’s Washington Correspondent, on his support for the claim that Iraq might soon be armed with…
A rule of thumb for the mainstream media is that the reporting of ideas that are damaging to powerful interests will tend…
A rule of thumb for the mainstream media is that the reporting of ideas that are damaging to powerful interests will tend…
A rule of thumb for the mainstream media is that the reporting of ideas that are damaging to powerful interests will tend…
Chemistry teachers have long delighted students by showing how near-perfect symmetrical structures can be produced by pouring a large number of small…
Prologue – When Lies Are Killing People, Liars Must Be Exposed As democracy and freedom continue to melt away beneath the withering…