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In a recent Guardian article, Julian Borger reports a massive 11% increase in U.S. defence spending. It is estimated that by 2007…
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).
Following our Media Alert Update, ‘The Observer’s Nick Cohen and Observer Editor Roger Alton Respond On Iraq’ (March 20, 2002 – for…
Following our Media Alert Update, ‘The Observer’s Nick Cohen Responds On Iraq’ (March 15, 2002), Media Lens received this reply from Nick…
Following our Media Alert, ‘Nick Cohen of the Observer on Iraq, Chomsky and Pilger’ (March 13, 2002), Media Lens received this reply…
In a recent article, Nick Cohen commented on the rationale behind the extraordinary media obsession with predicting the future. Cohen compares BBC…
Marjan the one-eyed lion is getting “better day by day” according to the latest ITN TV news report – the third so…
“Ha ha ha to the pacifists”, wrote Christopher Hitchens in November, as Kabul fell to the combined might of U.S. bombers, the…
After weeks of silence, ITN has finally acknowledged some of Afghanistan’s terrible suffering in its TV broadcasts. On January 9 and 13,…
In 1953 the tobacco industry faced a problem – their own reviews of the available scientific data concluded that smoking could kill.…
Truth is not always a casualty of war. In a recent Guardian article, Roy Greenslade reports the dramatic and, for the press,…