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Znet Article Edwards: NEWSNIGHT EDITOR RESPONDS ON THE NICHOLAS BURNS INTERVIEW

Znet Article, April, 28 2007 David Edwards
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On April 17, we published our Media Alert, 'The BBC's Gavin Esler Interviews US Undersecretary Of State Nicholas Burns' (http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070417_the_bbcs_gavin.php)We noted how Esler had completely f...

Znet Article Edwards: MEDIA ALERT: A MENACE TO US ALL - MAX HASTINGS AND IRAN

Znet Article, April, 05 2007 David Edwards
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When the big fish of British journalism enter the much bigger pond of the American prestige press, they understand that success requires a willingness to massage elite American prejudices. This kow-towing to claptrap is received all the more warml...

Znet Article Edwards: MEDIA ALERT: EXCHANGES WITH THE BBC AND CHANNEL 4

Znet Article, January, 20 2007 David Edwards
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In his book Necessary Illusions, Noam Chomsky summarised the stark divide separating media treatment of state crimes:"In the case of enemy crimes, we find outrage; allegations based on the flimsiest evidence, often simply invented, and uncorrectib...

Znet Article Edwards: RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: THE LIBERATED AND THE DEAD

Znet Article, December, 25 2006 David Edwards
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The title of the BBC news report was suitably 'balanced': 'Iraqi Deaths.' Not 'American Massacre,' or 'American Massacre Of Iraqi Civilians.'News anchor George Alagiah introduced the piece: "The US military is preparing to announce charges against...

Znet Article Edwards: HANGING SADDAM HUSSEIN - BURYING WESTERN COMPLICITY

Znet Article, November, 17 2006 David Edwards
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The BBC website’s reporting of the judgement was big, bold and triumphal: "Celebrations hail Saddam verdict in Baghdad's Shia- dominated Sadr City." (BBC news online, November 5, 2006) The following day, the New York Times website echoe...

Znet Article Edwards: Democracy and Debate - Killing Iraq

Znet Article, October, 25 2006 David Edwards
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How do we judge the health of a free society? How do we distinguish the appearance of democracy from the reality? There are no hard and fast rules, no scientific methodologies. But as a rule of thumb it is safe to suggest that we can learn much ...

Znet Article Edwards: Blair's Brilliant Speech

Znet Article, October, 01 2006 David Edwards
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A Deep-Seated Longing Odd things happen when corporate journalists, selected for obedience and conformity, are exposed to powerful leaders speaking at grand meetings. Consider this October 3, 2002 Guardian editorial: "In an intimate, almost conv...

Znet Article Edwards: The Invisible war - The Media And The Insurgency

Znet Article, September, 21 2006 David Edwards
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On the eve of the January 2005 elections in Iraq, Scott Peterson and Dan Murphy reported in the Christian Science Monitor: "the one thing every Iraqi agrees upon is that occupation should end soon". But this, it was noted, was an outcome that wo...

Znet Article Edwards: Demolishing Lebanon

Znet Article, July, 30 2006 David Edwards
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Part One In launching an emergency appeal for aid on July 24, the United Nations estimated that the lives of 800,000 Lebanese civilians have been disrupted by Israeli bombing. Hundreds of bridges and virtually all road networks have been systemat...

Znet Article Edwards: Blaming the Victim, Gaza

Znet Article, July, 10 2006 David Edwards
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Traditionally, British media reporting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been heavily biased in favour of the United States' major ally in the region, Israel. A 2002 Glasgow University Media Group report found that television broadcasters we...

Znet Article Edwards: A Superb Demolition Part 3

Znet Article, July, 01 2006 David Edwards
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A Superb Demolition Part 3

Znet Article Edwards: A Superb Demolition?

Znet Article, June, 23 2006 David Edwards
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PART 1: A Gauntlet Is Thrown On June 16, the Observer's editor Roger Alton made a bold announcement on his newspaper's website: "And to all my many enemies on the Left, and in various organisations like the pernicious MediaLens, I commend a sple...

Znet Article Edwards: Springtime For Blair

Znet Article, June, 03 2006 David Edwards
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Springtime For Blair

Znet Article Edwards: War Crimes And The Struggle For Truth

Znet Article, April, 20 2006 David Edwards
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An ancient Roman aphorism made a crucial point: "The senators are good men, but the senate is a beast." In the same way, no matter how deeply media corporations may be compromised by profit-orientation and links to establishment power, some journa...

Znet Article Edwards: Channel 4 Smears Chavez

Znet Article, April, 10 2006 David Edwards
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Channel 4 Smears Chavez

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq Body Count

Znet Article, April, 10 2006 David Edwards
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Noam Chomsky once observed: "If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong."(http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/pubs/gater/spring95/apr27/chom.htm) One indication that the Iraq Body Count (IBC) project is...

Znet Article Edwards: The Media And The Death Of Slobodan Milosevic

Znet Article, March, 20 2006 David Edwards
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"If we don't know history, then we are ready meat for carnivorous politicians and the intellectuals and journalists who supply the carving knives. But if we know some history, if we know how many times presidents have lied to us, we will not be fo...

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq Body Count Refuses to Respond

Znet Article, March, 14 2006 David Edwards
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On January 25 and 26, Media Lens published a two-part Media Alert: 'Paved With Good Intentions - Iraq Body Count, Parts 1 and 2'. We reported how we had searched the Iraq Body Count (IBC) database for incidents involving the mass killing of Iraqi ...

Znet Article Edwards: Silence, Secrecy and Book Reviews

Znet Article, March, 07 2006 David Edwards
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Body Shop founder, Anita Roddick, describes the view from the inside:"The language of business is not the language of the soul or the language of humanity. It's a language of indifference; it's a language of separation, of secrecy, of hierarchy." ...

Znet Article Edwards: Oil For The Killing Machine - The BBC On Iraq

Znet Article, February, 22 2006 David Edwards
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"There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom, for in that way one captures volition itself." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile) The political analyst Bertram Gross argued that there is no great malice driving the...

Znet Article Edwards: Paved With Good Intentions 2

Znet Article, January, 27 2006 David Edwards
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Testing Iraq Body Count Earlier this month Media Lens searched the IBC database looking for incidents involving the mass killing of Iraqi civilians by 'coalition' forces between January-June 2005. We began by searching for incidents citing a mini...

Znet Article Edwards: Paved With Good Intentions - 1

Znet Article, January, 27 2006 David Edwards
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On the rare occasions when the issue of civilian casualties is discussed in the mainstream media three words are invariably mentioned: Iraq Body Count (IBC). IBC describes itself as a project which maintains "the world's only independent and com...

Znet Article Edwards: Bambi Journalism

Znet Article, January, 09 2006 David Edwards
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Bambi Journalism

Znet Article Edwards: Brilliant Fools

Znet Article, December, 19 2005 David Edwards
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Introduction - Factory Labels The most effective way to control people is to control their assumptions about the world. The task of propaganda is to apply power-friendly labels and make them stick - it is the key to everything. The labelling fact...

Znet Article Edwards: The Insane Society

Znet Article, December, 14 2005 David Edwards
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In his classic book, The Sane Society, published in 1955, psychologist Erich Fromm proposed that, not just individuals, but entire societies "may be lacking in sanity". Fromm argued that one of the most deceptive features of social life involves "...

Znet Article Edwards: Smearing Chomsky -- The Guardian Backs Down

Znet Article, November, 23 2005 David Edwards
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Smearing Chomsky -- The Guardian Backs Down

Znet Article Edwards: Smearing Chomsky - The Guardian In The Gutter

Znet Article, November, 04 2005 David Edwards
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Introduction On October 31, the Guardian published an interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma Brockes, 'The greatest intellectual?' (The Guardian, October 31, 2005). The article was ostensibly in response to the fact that Chomsky had been voted the...

Znet Article Edwards: Thought Control and Professional Journalism, Part 1

Znet Article, October, 25 2005 David Edwards
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 Early last century, industrial technology allowed business interests to produce mass media at a cost that outclassed the capacity of non-corporate media to compete. As a result, radical publishers were marginalised and media diversity rapidly nar...

Znet Article Edwards: Robin Cook's 'Ethical' Foreign Policy

Znet Article, August, 26 2005 David Edwards
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August 6 And The Barbarians Of The Dark Ages Every death is a tragedy to be mourned. August 6 marked the 60th anniversary of the agonizing deaths of 140,000 Japanese people in the city of Hiroshima. In her article, 'Eight Hundred Metres From The ...

Znet Article Edwards: The New Statesman Editor And Blair's "Mistake"

Znet Article, July, 28 2005 David Edwards
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The American philosopher Henry David Thoreau once wrote: "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went...

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