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On June 24, 2002, Media Lens published a Media Alert: ‘John Sweeney Of The Observer And The BBC on Mass Death In…
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 fate of Iraq lies in the balance. US Republican Hawks are seeking to launch a further massive attack against the people…
The fate of Iraq lies in the balance. US Republican Hawks are seeking to launch a further massive attack against the people…
Focusing heavily on the machinations of public relations guru Edward Bernays, the BBC2 series, The Century of the Self, began its second…
Prologue – Three Quotes 1. "The team heard how girls as young as ten are being offered for marriage in exchange for…
The emergence of an independent East Timor on May 20 this year provided a good example of how the British ‘free press’…
One of the secrets of media manipulation is to report the horror and strife of the world as though Western power, interests…
“I think newsmen are inclined to side with humanity rather than with authority and institutions.” (Quoted Schechter, The More You Watch, The…
In his book, The More You Watch, The Less You Know, Mediachannel’s Danny Schechter reports a study by the University of Massachusetts,…
Regular Media Lens readers will know that we have generally focused on the performance of the ‘liberal’ media. The reason for this…