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Commentary Edwards: Beating Up The Cheerleader

Commentary, July, 30 2003 David Edwards
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Government Attacks On The BBC Reflect Government Totalitarianism Not BBC Radicalism

Commentary Edwards: Who is Néstor Kirchner Argentina's new President?

Commentary, May, 20 2003 David Edwards
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After Carlos Menem pulled out from the ballotage, Néstor Kirchner formerly a governor of a Patagonian province will take office the 25th of May as Argentina's new president. Kirchner, who had obtained only 22% of the vote in the first round, is n...

Commentary Edwards: Grit Your Teeth: Surgery In A Liberated Iraq

Commentary, May, 18 2003 David Edwards
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In a recent Media Alert, 'Killings At Falluja - The BBC Tells One Side Of The Story' (April 29, 2003), we reported how the BBC's lunchtime news had devoted 3 minutes and 10 seconds to the killing of 16 and wounding of 75 Iraqi civilian protestors ...

Commentary Edwards: Professional Servility And How To Overcome It - 2

Commentary, January, 19 2003 David Edwards
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The great significance of what Schmidt has to say should be clear - professionals, including media professionals, are +not+ liars. They are people who have been selected and trained to subordinate their capacity for critical thought to a professio...

Commentary Edwards: Professional Servility And How To Overcome It

Commentary, December, 30 2002 David Edwards
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We live in strange times. Day to day, journalists are seriously debating whether a single omission in a dossier on arms, or a single failure to open a door within two hours, justifies launching a massive war against a broken Third World country wi...

Commentary Edwards: Conspiracy-free Conformity

Commentary, September, 27 2002 David Edwards
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Chemistry teachers have long delighted students by showing how near-perfect symmetrical structures can be produced by pouring a large number of small balls into a square box, whereupon a perfect pyramid is inevitably produced. The balls either lan...

Commentary Edwards: Force-feeding The Dream

Commentary, September, 22 2002 David Edwards
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A current Peugeot advert depicts an Indian driver in a dusty, impoverished village smashing his wreck of a car - what appears to be an old Morris Oxford - forwards and backwards into walls. The driver then coaxes an elephant to sit on the bonnet, ...

Commentary Edwards: The Mad Mullahs Of The Mainstream Media

Commentary, July, 13 2002 David Edwards
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Prologue - When Lies Are Killing People, Liars Must Be Exposed

Commentary Edwards: The Unspoken Rule Of Media Reporting: Guatemala, Bbc, And Propaganda

Commentary, June, 17 2002 David Edwards
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Focusing heavily on the machinations of public relations guru Edward

Commentary Edwards: Ironclad Hearts - Inner And Outer Liberation

Commentary, June, 13 2002 David Edwards
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Fromm was right. What, after all, is the difference between an active dissident and a mainstream "journalist of attachment", or one of our many indifferent citizens?

Commentary Edwards: Arms, Climate Change, And The Grand Media Deception

Commentary, April, 06 2002 David Edwards
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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 defence spending will be 20% higher than average cold war levels. While September 11 is cited as justification, the i...

Commentary Edwards: In The Land Of The Blind A One-eyed Lion Is News

Commentary, January, 22 2002 David Edwards
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After weeks of silence, ITN has finally acknowledged some of Afghanistan's terrible suffering in its TV broadcasts.

Commentary Edwards: The Great Mobile Phone Cover-up

Commentary, January, 21 2002 David Edwards
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In 1953 the tobacco industry faced a problem - their own reviews of the available scientific data concluded that smoking could kill. A report for RJ Reynolds stated: "Studies of clinical data tend to confirm the relationship between heavy and prol...

Commentary Edwards: Lethal Conceits

Commentary, December, 31 2001 David Edwards
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Truth is not always a casualty of war. In a recent Guardian article, Roy Greenslade reports the dramatic and, for the press, devastating collapse in advertising revenues following the terrorist atrocities of September 11:

Commentary Edwards: A CLIMATE OF PROFIT

Commentary, August, 22 2001 David Edwards
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To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders met in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, The Guardian took a l...

Commentary Edwards: A CLIMATE OF PROFIT

Commentary, August, 22 2001 David Edwards
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To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders met in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, The Guardian took a l...

Commentary Edwards: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE...

Commentary, August, 10 2001 David Edwards
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"All of existence", an ancient sage once wrote, "depends on the tip of a wish." By which he meant that the state of the world is determined by what ultimately motivates us: if enough people basically crave personal wealth and power, then the world...

Commentary Edwards: THE MEDIA ELECTION 2001: LOW FARCE

Commentary, June, 18 2001 David Edwards
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Traditionally, general elections in Britain are a time for much quasi-religious talk of the blessed gift of democracy - so recently won at such high cost, we are told - and the importance of paying due homage to that great principle at the busines...

Commentary Edwards: HOW TO KILL THE TRUTH - Part 2

Commentary, May, 24 2001 David Edwards
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On December 22, 2000, I asked Alan Rusbridger, editor of the 'liberal' flagship newspaper, the Guardian, if he thought wealthy owners, parent companies, advertisers, flak machines, and allied political pressures compromised press reporting:

Commentary Edwards: Media Mendacity and The Art of Self-Deception

Commentary, May, 09 2001 David Edwards
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On 27 January 1986, the O-ring task force of Morton Thiokol met to discuss the likely consequences of a proposed Space Shuttle launch the following day at a temperature of 18 degrees Fahrenheit. O-rings are designed to take up the slack in the Shu...

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