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Commentary 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.

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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,' ...

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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. ...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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."

Commentary Edwards: MEDIA ALERT: PATRIOTISM AS PROPAGANDA - PART 2

Commentary, January, 20 2007 David Edwards
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Voluntary Subjection Cannot Be Forced

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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:

Commentary 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...

Commentary Edwards: Ridiculing Chavez - Part 2

Commentary, June, 01 2006 David Edwards
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In Part 1 of this alert we showed how the mainstream media have been united in depicting Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as an extreme, absurd and threatening figure. In essence, the public has been urged to consider Chavez beyond the pale of res...

Commentary Edwards: Ridiculing Chavez - Part 1

Commentary, May, 21 2006 David Edwards
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Controlling what we think is not solely about controlling what we know - it is also about controlling who we respect and who we find ridiculous.

Commentary Edwards: Channel 4 Smears Chavez

Commentary, April, 18 2006 David Edwards
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On March 27, Channel 4 News included a report by Washington Correspondent Jonathan Rugman: 'Hugo to go?' (http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=2046)

Commentary Edwards: Beyond the Blog-o-Bots, Part 2

Commentary, January, 27 2006 David Edwards
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In Part 1 of this alert we reviewed Robert Fisk's observation that "more and more people are trying to find a different and more accurate narrative of events in the Middle East. It is a tribute to their intelligence that instead of searching for b...

Commentary Edwards: MEDIA ALERT: BEYOND THE 'BLOG-O-BOTS'

Commentary, January, 26 2006 David Edwards
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Robert Fisk On The British Media - Part 1

Commentary Edwards: Real Men Go To Tehran

Commentary, October, 31 2005 David Edwards
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The Roman historian Tacitus observed: "Crime once exposed has no refuge but in audacity."

Commentary Edwards: Media 'Errors' And The Lancet

Commentary, October, 02 2005 David Edwards
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Writing on the BBC's website last month, World Affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds observed that George Bush was struggling to turn Iraq into a stable country before his term ends in January 2009:

Commentary Edwards: Cogitation: They Just Never Meant Very Much To Us

Commentary, July, 30 2005 David Edwards
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Samples From An Ocean Of Suffering

Commentary Edwards: Iraq And Zimbabwe - A Tale Of Two Elections

Commentary, April, 20 2005 David Edwards
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Okay, We'll Let Them Have A Government

Commentary Edwards: Media Complicity In War Crimes

Commentary, March, 07 2005 David Edwards
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"Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we." (Jean Rostand)

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