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What lies at the heart of man? Anything? Nothing? Nothing much? Many of us believe that the human heart is a wasteland,…
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).
It matters that the media have lavished so much attention on the aftermath of Haiti’s January 12 earthquake. The coverage has helped…
On December 14, The Times announced that it had obtained documents about Iran’s nuclear program that revealed “a four-year plan to test…
In an interview last week, Jeremy Paxman – leading interviewer on BBC 2’s flagship Newsnight programme – claimed that he had been…
Alain de Botton, "Branded Conversations", and Runaway Climate Change News that philosopher Alain de Botton had been hired as Heathrow’s "writer in…
In our previous alert (‘The Westminster Conspiracy,’ October 8; http://www.medialens.org/alerts/archive.php) we described how the media’s insistence that journalists be ’balanced’, that they…
On September 19, the Irish Times reported: "Israel has rejected the call by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to join the…
Iran’s June 12 presidential elections have been widely criticised, both domestically and abroad, as lacking credibility. During the popular protests that followed,…
Closing The Loop The “big beasts” of the pre-digital media age are in big trouble, the Guardian tells us. In the last…
It is a mistake to imagine that media corporations are impervious to all complaints and criticism. In fact, senior editors and managers…