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On April 15, we wrote to Mark Urban, the Diplomatic Editor of the BBC‘s Newsnight programme. Urban was formerly defence correspondent at…
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).
Al-Qaeda – Who Else? On March 23, BBC online reported another bloody day in Iraq: "It was the second bomb attack in…
As a presidential candidate, Barrack Obama described the war in Iraq as one that “should never have been authorised and never been…
Numerous members of the public have written to us expressing their bewilderment at the violence of Israel’s 22-day attack on Gaza killing…
Plan Dalet – A Hidden History Of Ethnic Cleansing Defending the BBC’s long record of biased reporting, the BBC’s Middle East editor,…
On March 24, 1999, an emotional Tony Blair appealed to the House of Commons and to the people of Britain: "We must…
In 1997, the British media filled with talk of "historic" change. Blair’s victory that year "bursts open the door to a British…
In Part 1 of this alert, we noted how journalists who threaten their employers’ interests – and the interests of their key…
Martin Tierney is one of a tiny number of mainstream journalists willing to review our book, ‘Guardians of Power’. In June 2006,…
On September 1, the press began warning that "the storm of the century" was about to hit New Orleans as Hurricane Gustav…