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Edwards: Tyranny And Rebellion
Commentary, March, 27 2011
David Edwards
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Historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010), would be remembered above all for his humanity and warmth, were it not for the crystal clarity of his insight.
Edwards: Captive Nation - Egypt And The West
Commentary, February, 10 2011
David Edwards
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In 2011, ‘the thing in itself’ is alive and well in Egypt. What an extraordinary spectacle it is - a dictatorship behaving as though an entire people were its personal property.
Edwards: Beyond Hiroshima
Commentary, September, 12 2010
David Edwards
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Compassion is sometimes a central theme of media reporting. On August 25, journalists across the UK described how a British woman, Mary Bale, had been filmed dropping a cat into a wheelie bin. The cat was later released unharmed.
Cromwell: Gates Of Delusion
Commentary, February, 28 2010
David Cromwell
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Since November last year, the public has been bombarded with the story of stolen emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, revealing a supposed "scandal" of scientific malpractice, stupidly and lazily named "climateg...
Edwards: The BBC's Jeremy Paxman On Iraq - "We Were Hoodwinked"
Commentary, November, 12 2009
David Edwards
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In an interview last week, Jeremy Paxman - leading interviewer on BBC 2's flagship Newsnight programme - claimed that he had been "hoodwinked" by US government propaganda prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003...
Edwards: The Cockroach Test
Commentary, October, 18 2009
David Edwards
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News that philosopher Alain de Botton had been hired as Heathrow's "writer in residence" generated minor ripples across the media pond, including occasional murmurs of disapproval. Journalists momentarily failed to repress their awareness that tru...
Edwards: Siding With The Generals - The Independent On Honduras
Commentary, August, 06 2009
David Edwards
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Iran's June 12 presidential elections have been widely criticised, both domestically and abroad, as lacking credibility. During the popular protests that followed, some 30 people were killed by government forces with hundreds more arrested. These ...
Edwards: The Left-Wing Media Fallacy- Jeremy Bowen, The BBC, And Other National Treasures
Commentary, May, 23 2009
David Edwards
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It is a mistake to imagine that media corporations are impervious to all complaints and criticism. In fact, senior editors and managers are only too happy to accept that their journalists tend to be 'anti-American,' 'anti-Israel,' 'anti-Western,' ...
Edwards: The BBC Refuses To Broadcast Gaza Charity Appeal
Commentary, January, 28 2009
David Edwards
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Numerous members of the public have written to us expressing their bewilderment at the violence of Israel's 22-day attack on Gaza killing upwards of 1,400 people and wounding 5,500. To many witnessing the onslaught on their TV screens (especially ...
Edwards: An Eye For An Eyelash: The Gaza Massacre - Part 2
Commentary, January, 17 2009
David Edwards
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An Eye For An Eyelash: The Gaza Massacre - Part 2
Edwards: An Eye For An Eyelash: The Gaza Massacre - Part 1
Commentary, January, 16 2009
David Edwards
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An Eye For An Eyelash: The Gaza Massacre - Part 1
Edwards: "NOT VERY INTERESTING" - Haiti, New Orleans And Media Hypocrisy
Commentary, September, 28 2008
David Edwards
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The figure of 1,000 dead in Haiti compares with eight dead reported for Louisiana. And yet a media database search (September 15) showed that the words 'New Orleans' and 'hurricane' appeared in 265 UK newspaper articles over the last three weeks. ...
Edwards: Selling The Fireball - George Bush And Iran
Commentary, June, 29 2008
David Edwards
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When George Bush arrived in Britain last week as part of his "farewell tour", the real reasons for the visit were buried well out of sight. The tour was not, as the Guardian suggested, a mere "continental au revoir". The purpose was to coerce Gord...
Edwards: All Smoke, No Fire - The National Journal Smears The Lancet
Commentary, January, 27 2008
David Edwards
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Last year, we described how mainstream climate sceptics had queued up to praise film-maker Martin Durkin's now infamous documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle. The Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and their counterparts in the United States...
Edwards: David Aaronovitch - A Different Kind Of Compassion
Commentary, January, 13 2008
David Edwards
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If "The wages of sin is death", the returns must seem altogether less bleak to Tony Blair. In November, Blair was reported to have received £237,000 for a 20-minute speech before an audience of Chinese entrepreneurs. While his salary as prime mini...
Edwards: THE BBC AND THE 'HARMLESS' HEAT-RAY
Commentary, February, 15 2007
David Edwards
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General Mann: "That skeleton beam must be what they used to wipe out the French cities."
Edwards: MEDIA ALERT: PATRIOTISM AS PROPAGANDA - PART 2
Commentary, January, 20 2007
David Edwards
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Voluntary Subjection Cannot Be Forced
Edwards: MEDIA ALERT: PATRIOTISM AS PROPAGANDA - PART 1
Commentary, January, 14 2007
David Edwards
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On December 24, the Independent on Sunday's front page featured a portrait of a British soldier gazing pensively into the distance. A banner headline filled the page: "An 'IoS' Christmas special with the troops - Letters home from the front, pages...
Edwards: An Exchange with the Political Editor of the New Statesman
Commentary, October, 22 2006
David Edwards
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On September 28, we wrote to Martin Bright, the political editor of the New Statesman:
Edwards: Climate Change, BP Greenwash And The Press
Commentary, September, 19 2006
David Edwards
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On May 25, one of us spent several minutes laughing on the phone with a friend of ours, an environmental journalist. We were looking at the homepage of the Independent website - a newspaper that has made huge efforts to present itself as a radical...
