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Edwards: Iraqi Destiny
Commentary, February, 13 2005
David Edwards
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On September 3, 1967 the New York Times reported that US officials "were surprised and heartened" at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election "despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting." (Peter Grose, 'U.S. En...
Edwards: 100,000 Iraqi Civilian Deaths - Part 2
Commentary, December, 15 2004
David Edwards
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By way of a splendid coincidence, Media Lens received this delayed response from the BBC on November 3:
Edwards: 100,000 Iraqi Civilian Deaths - Part 1
Commentary, November, 23 2004
David Edwards
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The Nicest Guys You Can Imagine
Edwards: Deceptive Appearances
Commentary, October, 01 2004
David Edwards
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The Hall Of Mirrors
Edwards: Animal Rights - The Case For Kindness
Commentary, August, 21 2004
David Edwards
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The Tear-Stained Robot
Edwards: Let Freedom Reign - The Big Lie
Commentary, July, 04 2004
David Edwards
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The stakes are high for anyone willing to pit their capacity for independent, rational thought against the media's version of the world. All too often, we find ourselves faced with the choice of deciding that either we, or a wide range of celebrit...
Edwards: Bombing The Peace Protestors
Commentary, April, 05 2004
David Edwards
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People Pay The Price For Realpolitik
Edwards: On Iraq's Future: Unstable Democracy,Violence and Corruption
Commentary, January, 13 2004
David Edwards
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The hidden link between capitalism, social unrest, state violence, and corruption is becoming more and more exposed all over the world. Iraqis do not need to be explained this: George W. Bush is not only killing them on a daily basis, but also pri...
Edwards: Prevailing Untruths
Commentary, December, 05 2003
David Edwards
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Prevailing Untruths
Edwards: Feigned Media Psychosis
Commentary, October, 10 2003
David Edwards
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Access Denied
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
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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
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
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?
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...
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.
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...
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:
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:
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...
