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Edwards: Media Alert: The London Bombings
Znet Article, July, 18 2005
David Edwards
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Terrible ironies attend the use of violence for political ends. Despite their ostensible opposition, two warring factions are often united in their fundamental view of the world. Both insist that continued violence is the only realistic option. Bo...
Edwards: Media Alert: The London Bombings
Znet Article, July, 18 2005
David Edwards
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Terrible ironies attend the use of violence for political ends. Despite their ostensible opposition, two warring factions are often united in their fundamental view of the world. Both insist that continued violence is the only realistic option. Bo...
Edwards: Downing Street Memo 2
Znet Article, July, 02 2005
David Edwards
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The Real News We have to admit that our attention was elsewhere when Michael Smith published his Sunday Times article on the Downing Street memo on May 1. We were busy focusing on our own pre-election Media Alerts and then immediately moved on to...
Edwards: The Downing Street Memo - Part 1
Znet Article, June, 28 2005
David Edwards
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At the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal in 1946, Nazi leaders like Goering, von Ribbentrop, Jodl and Streicher were sentenced to death by hanging for "Crimes against Peace: namely, planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, o...
Edwards: Manufactured Consensus - The Sun And Saddam Hussein
Znet Article, May, 31 2005
David Edwards
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Just over one year ago, British journalists and politicians were fulminating over photographs published in the Daily Mirror that appeared to show Iraqi prisoners being abused by British soldiers. The British military, it was claimed, now possessed...
Edwards: BBC Ignores Evidence of War Crimes
Znet Article, May, 24 2005
David Edwards
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"Professional journalism relies heavily on official sources. Reporters have to talk to the PM's official spokesperson, the White House press secretary, the business association, the army general. What those people say is news. Their perspectives a...
Edwards: Marr Serves Up A Liberal Herring
Znet Article, May, 05 2005
David Edwards
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The BBC's political editor, Andrew Marr, said last week of the publishing of the Attorney General's March 7, 2003 advice on the legality of war: "For two years people have suspected that somehow the Attorney General believed the war to be illeg...
Edwards: What's So Funny About Peace, Love And Armageddon?
Znet Article, April, 26 2005
David Edwards
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Do You Believe? At the beginning of every episode of the long running sci-fi series, The X-Files, viewers were shown the mysterious words "I want to believe." We were to understand that one of the FBI investigators in the show was eager to overco...
Edwards: How Do You Shoot Babies?
Znet Article, March, 16 2005
David Edwards
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Facing execution for his role in the murder of more than 1 million people, many of them children, Auschwitz commandant, Rudolf Hoess, reflected on his life and works: "Today, I deeply regret that I did not spend more time with my family." (Hoess,...
Edwards: Silence Is Green
Znet Article, February, 09 2005
David Edwards
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It is one of the great ironies of our time that, as evidence of environmental catastrophe has inexorably mounted, so the visibility of radical environmental movements has collapsed. In the late 1980s, public outrage at environmental devastation pr...
Edwards: BBC On Iran..
Znet Article, January, 27 2005
David Edwards
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On January 21, we published a Rapid Response Media Alert, 'Targeting Iran - The BBC Propaganda Begins,' in which we noted that the BBC's diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins, had reported that US relations with Iran were "looking very murky bec...
Edwards: Targeting Iran
Znet Article, January, 21 2005
David Edwards
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Targeting Iran
Edwards: Unity In Deceit
Znet Article, January, 20 2005
David Edwards
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Introduction - A Simple Question People sometimes tell us we're too hard on the media. They say: 'Come on, there +is+ a fair amount of diversity, a range of different views. And the Independent publishes some valuable stuff, so does the Guardian ...
Edwards: Dwarfing The Tsunami - A Warning
Znet Article, January, 12 2005
David Edwards
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"Civilisation exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice." (Will Durant, historian) Festive Depression Curious things happen to the British public around Christmas. The weeks and months leading up to December 25 are character...
Edwards: Naked Empire
Znet Article, December, 17 2004
David Edwards
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Respective Positions On The Media And Power (Continued) John Pilger - An Epic Silence Readers of our Media Alerts will be well aware of John Pilger's view of the media and establishment power more generally. He reserves a special place in his ...
Edwards: Protest The Bbc On Thursday, December 2 - This Is Why! Part 2
Znet Article, December, 01 2004
David Edwards
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Introduction Tomorrow, December 2, the peace group A Call For Light is organising a peaceful vigil outside the BBC, Bush House, Aldwych, London, between 5:30pm and 7:00pm. (http://www.acallforlight.org/) Like the rest of the mainstream media, th...
Edwards: Protest The Bbc On Thursday, December 2 - This Is Why!
Znet Article, December, 01 2004
David Edwards
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"There is not a single surgeon in Falluja. We had one ambulance hit by US fire and a doctor wounded. There are scores of injured civilians in their homes whom we can't move. A 13-year-old child just died in my hands." (Dr. Sami al-Jumaili, main Fa...
Edwards: BBC and Fallujah
Znet Article, November, 27 2004
David Edwards
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On November 8 and 11 we published two Media Alerts: 'Legitimising Mass Slaughter in Fallujah,' in which we commented on the bias and inhumanity of BBC and ITV News reporting on Fallujah. These alerts generated a massive response from readers - o...
Edwards: Nightmare Fear
Znet Article, November, 20 2004
David Edwards
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the public alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." (H.L. Mencken, 1923) Introduction - Pyrrhic Applause "Every...
Edwards: BBC and Fallujah Part 2
Znet Article, November, 11 2004
David Edwards
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"We'll unleash the dogs of hell, we'll unleash 'em... They don't even know what's coming - hell is coming. If there are civilians in there, they're in the wrong place at the wrong time." (Sergeant Sam Mortimer, US marines, Channel 4 News, November...
Edwards: BBC and Fallujah
Znet Article, November, 08 2004
David Edwards
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Introduction - Pacifying The Population In 1984, Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead described how "demonstration elections" are "organised and staged by a foreign power primarily to pacify a restive home population, reassuring it that ongoing inter...
Edwards: Iraqi Catastrophe
Znet Article, October, 21 2004
David Edwards
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On February 16, 2003, Tony Blair responded to the biggest protest march in Britain's history the previous day: "Yes, there are consequences of war. If we remove Saddam by force, people will die, and some will be innocent. ... But there are also ...
Edwards: Facing Goliath
Znet Article, October, 08 2004
David Edwards
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Facing Goliath
Edwards: The Mythology of Mistakes
Znet Article, October, 06 2004
David Edwards
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"Criticism of foreign policies is certainly possible, and normal, but within narrow limits which show 'exceptions' to, or 'mistakes' in, promoting the rule of basic benevolence." (Mark Curtis, Web Of Deceit) "As is so often the case in this conf...
Edwards: An Exchange With The BBC's Newsnight Editor
Znet Article, September, 14 2004
David Edwards
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The one truth that cries out to be heard as a result of everything we now know about the invasion of Iraq is this: the media failed, catastrophically, to challenge the official version of events prior to the attack. Journalists may claim that Ir...
Edwards: Reporting for Duty
Znet Article, August, 08 2004
David Edwards
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Reporting for Duty
Edwards: The Bias In 'Balanced' Journalism
Znet Article, July, 30 2004
David Edwards
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The Bias In 'Balanced' Journalism
Edwards: Cogitation: Bloody Uniform
Znet Article, July, 09 2004
David Edwards
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"Q. You're married? A. Right. Q. Children? A. Two. Q. How old? A. The boy is two and a half, and the little girl is a year and a half. Q. Obviously, the question comes to my mind... the father of two little kids like that... how can he shoot babie...
Edwards: The Guardian and BBC Interview with Bill Clinton
Znet Article, July, 06 2004
David Edwards
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"It is a bitter irony of source journalism," historian Walter Karp once noted, "that the most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the 'best' sources." ...
Edwards: Visions of the Damned
Znet Article, June, 16 2004
David Edwards
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In Part 1 of this Media Alert we described some of the horrific reality of the Reagan years for the people of Central America. The United States did not impose this vast terror out of a sadistic love of torturing people but out of a pragmatic dete...
