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Znet Article Edwards: The Balance Of Power - Exchanges With BBC Journalists - Part 1

Znet Article, October, 16 2009 David Edwards
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Journalists who criticise powerful interests can be attacked for their ‘bias’, for revealing their prejudices. On the other hand, as we will see in the examples below, almost no-one protests, or even notices, the lack of balance in patriotic a...

Znet Article Edwards: The War Dance

Znet Article, October, 03 2009 David Edwards
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The IAEA, which met in Vienna on September 18, adopted a resolution expressing concern about "Israeli nuclear capabilities" and called on agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei to work on the issue. The motion was adopted by 49 votes to 45, with 16 absten...

Znet Article Edwards: Big Beasts, Big Bloodbath

Znet Article, July, 23 2009 David Edwards
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The “big beasts” of the pre-digital media age are in big trouble, the Guardian tells us. In the last year, they have faced, not only structural challenges but the worst recession for a generation:

Znet Article Edwards: Protesting War - An Exchange With The BBC's Diplomatic Editor, Mark Urban

Znet Article, April, 25 2009 David Edwards
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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 the Independent. He served in the British Army, for nine months as a regular officer and four years in th...

Znet Article Edwards: Children Of Darkness - Killing 'Them' - Parts 1 & 2

Znet Article, April, 11 2009 David Edwards
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Killing 'Them' - Parts 1 & 2

Znet Article Edwards: Generic Invader Nonsense - Obama On Iraq

Znet Article, March, 05 2009 David Edwards
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According to the American agreement with Iraq - known as a SOFA (status of forces agreement) - US forces must leave Iraq by the end of December 2011.

Znet Article Cromwell: 'Living Our Values' - Guardian News & Media And The Climate

Znet Article, November, 28 2008 David Cromwell
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Last week, Guardian News & Media (GNM) published 'Living Our Values', an independently audited account of the company's annual performance on sustainability issues. GNM, which encompasses the Guardian, the Observer and guardian.co.uk, claims to ha...

Znet Article Edwards: Obama - Wiping The Slate Clean

Znet Article, November, 15 2008 David Edwards
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In 1997, the British media filled with talk of “historic” change. Blair's victory that year “bursts open the door to a British transformation,” the Independent declared...

Znet Article Edwards: Intellectual Cleansing: Part 3 - Comment Is Closed

Znet Article, October, 15 2008 David Edwards
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In Part 1 we noted how journalists who threaten their employers’ interests - and the interests of their key political and corporate allies - tend to be unceremoniously dumped. We also described how the force of the law can be deployed to silence d...

Znet Article Edwards: Intellectual Cleansing: Part 1 - Keeping The Media Safe For Big Business

Znet Article, October, 02 2008 David Edwards
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Martin Tierney is one of a tiny number of mainstream journalists willing to review our book, ‘Guardians of Power’. In June 2006, he published an accurate outline of our argument in the Herald, commenting: “It stands up to scrutiny.”

Znet Article Edwards: When News Is Noise - Georgia, South Ossetia And The Political Pipeline

Znet Article, September, 12 2008 David Edwards
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A Los Angeles Times editorial observed last month that China had persuaded world leaders to attend the Olympic Games “despite their misgivings about Beijing's horrific human rights record both domestically and abroad”. The horror, the editors note...

Znet Article Edwards: Some Matter More - When 47 Victims Are Worth 43 Words

Znet Article, July, 24 2008 David Edwards
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In reporting the November 2005 Haditha massacre, in which 24 Iraqi civilians were murdered by US troops, Newsweek suggested that the scale of the tragedy “should not be exaggerated”. Why?

Znet Article Edwards: News International Threatens Media Lens With Legal And Police Action

Znet Article, July, 13 2008 David Edwards
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On June 28 and July 3, Media Lens received repeated threats of both legal and police action from Alastair Brett, legal manager of News International’s Times Newspapers.

Znet Article Edwards: Burma And The Making Of Iraq's Ghost Towns

Znet Article, June, 01 2008 David Edwards
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The problem for professional journalists is that they are not free to change...

Znet Article Edwards: Somalia - Hidden Catastrophe Hidden Agenda

Znet Article, May, 15 2008 David Edwards
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One might think the BBC's headline would identify the agency responsible for the bombing, but the first few sentences also shed no light...

Znet Article Edwards: Extra Zero

Znet Article, April, 21 2008 David Edwards
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An Exchange With The Independent’s John Rentoul...

Znet Article Edwards: ‘With Total Destruction’ - The Failure Of Journalism In Iraq

Znet Article, April, 02 2008 David Edwards
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On March 22, an Economist magazine editorial described the recent violence in Tibet as a "colonial uprising", a "revolt" against foreign occupation. This was accurate, as was the implication that China has no legitimate claims over Tibet...

Znet Article Edwards: Flat Earth News - The Inside View - Part 1

Znet Article, March, 09 2008 David Edwards
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Nick Davies’s latest book, Flat Earth News, is a “no-holds-barred assault on the British media,” according to Michael Savage writing in the Independent. (Savage, ‘Kamal Ahmed: “Nick is a coward”. Ahmed bites back,’ The Independent, February 11, 2008)

Znet Article Cromwell: Israel's Illegal Assault On The Gaza 'Prison'

Znet Article, March, 04 2008 David Cromwell
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Israel has drawn international criticism for its latest series of onslaughts against the 'prison' of Gaza, the crowded home to 1.4 million Palestinians. Since last Wednesday (February 27), 112 Palestinians have died under Israeli air attacks and '...

Znet Article Edwards: Suharto - Covering Up Western Complicity

Znet Article, February, 20 2008 David Edwards
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The death of the former Indonesian dictator, Suharto, on January 27 could have unleashed a flood of revelations detailing British and American support for one of the 20th century’s worst mass murderers. Instead, the media continued the cover up th...

Znet Article Edwards: Manufacturing Threats

Znet Article, December, 26 2007 David Edwards
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News that British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons had been jailed in Sudan after allowing her pupils to call a teddy bear Mohammed fed straight into the UK media's hate factory and its “war for civilisation”.

Znet Article Edwards: The Faceless And The Dead - The Guardian And Iraq’s Refugees

Znet Article, December, 17 2007 David Edwards
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For several months now, non-UK visitors accessing the Guardian website have been shown an endlessly revolving animation in three segments that would not look out of place on FAIR, ZNet, or indeed Media Lens.

Znet Article Cromwell: "Red Herring" - Al Gore, The Climate Sceptics And The BBC

Znet Article, October, 18 2007 David Cromwell
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On October 10, the BBC's Ten O'Clock News led with the story that a High Court Judge had found nine "errors" in Al Gore's climate film, 'An Inconvenient Truth', which the UK government has been sending to schools around the country. As a result, b...

Znet Article Cromwell: Red Herring" - Al Gore, The Climate Sceptics And The BBC

Znet Article, October, 18 2007 David Cromwell
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On October 10, the BBC's Ten O'Clock News led with the story that a High Court Judge had found nine "errors" in Al Gore's climate film, 'An Inconvenient Truth', which the UK government has been sending to schools around the country. As a result, b...

Znet Article Edwards: Giving The Climate Camp A Good Telling Off!

Znet Article, August, 24 2007 David Edwards
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Last week's peaceful protests at the Heathrow Camp for Climate Action (http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/) were a heartening sign of sanity in response to the huge climate threat facing us. Activists dr...

Znet Article Edwards: Bush-Brown Summit - The Media Deception Continues And The Iraq Catastrophe Deepens

Znet Article, August, 03 2007 David Edwards
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Bush-Brown Summit - The Media Deception Continues And The Iraq Catastrophe Deepens

Znet Article Edwards: FROM BLAIR TO BROWN - THE KILLING WILL CONTINUE

Znet Article, July, 24 2007 David Edwards
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The first truth of American foreign policy is that it is formulated to maximise corporate profits and state power. The second truth is that it is perennially sold to the public as a mission to spread freedom, democracy and human rights. The third ...

Znet Article Edwards: CHAVEZ AND RCTV - TILTING THE BALANCE AGAINST 'THE BAD GUY'

Znet Article, June, 14 2007 David Edwards
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CHAVEZ AND RCTV - TILTING THE BALANCE AGAINST 'THE BAD GUY'

Znet Article Edwards: THE SURGE - HERE TO HELP

Znet Article, May, 23 2007 David Edwards
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THE SURGE - HERE TO HELP

Znet Article Edwards: PUTTING VIRGINIA TECH IN PERSPECTIVE

Znet Article, May, 02 2007 David Edwards
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Analytical ValueTwo days after a gunman shot dead 32 students and staff at an American college, Virginia Tech, on April 16, a series of car bombs killed more than 200 people in Iraq causing one of the highest death tolls since the war began. In a ...

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