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Znet Article Edwards: Media Alternatives

Znet Article, June, 02 2004 David Edwards
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Towards A Compassionate Mass Media In considering the development of honest media, we begin from the premise that truth telling should be motivated by compassion for suffering rather than greed for wealth, status and privilege. We assume that hu...

Znet Article Edwards: Media Alternatives - Part 1

Znet Article, May, 28 2004 David Edwards
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On February 4, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger emailed us the following challenge: "Dear David, I continue to be very pressed. You make an nteresting critique of the general position regarding the funding of newspapers - and you draw the implica...

Znet Article Edwards: Tails and Dogs

Znet Article, May, 20 2004 David Edwards
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In January an inquiry presided over by Lord Hutton determined that a report by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan had been "unfounded". Last year, Gilligan had reported that senior intelligence officials thought the British government's claim that Ira...

Znet Article Edwards: Ugly Underneath

Znet Article, May, 06 2004 David Edwards
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West Is Best? Writing in the Daily Mirror on April 22, Tony Parsons raged at the brutal killing of four American security guards in Falluja: "The gloating sadistic savagery of those Iraqi 'freedom fighters' appals me", Parsons declared, before c...

Znet Article Edwards: Crushing Fallujah, 2

Znet Article, April, 23 2004 David Edwards
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Target Rich Slums Sniping specialists say of Falluja that there may not have been such a "target rich" battlefield for that kind of killing since the World War II battle for Stalingrad. The Los Angeles Times reports that US snipers have been kill...

Znet Article Edwards: Corporate Media Distorted Vision

Znet Article, April, 20 2004 David Edwards
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MEDIA ALERT UPDATE: THE GUARDIAN'S SPARK EDITOR RESPONDS On April 6, we published a Media Alert, 'Rolling Deeply In The Dust'. We discussed how, despite its professed "idealism", the Guardian's new Spark magazine appeared to be primarily design...

Znet Article Edwards: Crushing Fallujah

Znet Article, April, 19 2004 David Edwards
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On April 10, details emerged from aid agencies and hospital sources that fully 600 Iraqis had been killed and 1700 injured in Falluja, many of them civilians. From the smashed slums of the city, Aljazeera broadcast the reality: a child under five ...

Znet Article Edwards: Kosovo And Iraq

Znet Article, April, 06 2004 David Edwards
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The truth about the invasion of Iraq was perhaps best summed up by Ray McGovern, one of the CIA's most senior...

Znet Article Edwards: Hell To Haiti, 2

Znet Article, March, 02 2004 David Edwards
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Killing Hope Jean-Bertrand Aristide told the Associated Press yesterday that he was forced to leave Haiti by US military forces. Asked if he left on his own, Aristide answered: "No. I was forced to leave. Agents were telling me that if I don't l...

Znet Article Edwards: Hutton, Butler, Blair, and the BBC Governors

Znet Article, February, 20 2004 David Edwards
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It is possible that the establishment is falling out of love with George Bush and Tony Blair. The art of democratic government is to hide the exploitation of people and planet behind fine words and illusions. The philosopher Nagarjuna explained th...

Znet Article Edwards: A Few Simple Truths

Znet Article, February, 13 2004 David Edwards
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The New Obedience Chemistry teachers have long delighted students by showing how near-perfect symmetrical structures can be produced simply by pouring a stream of small balls into a square box, whereupon a pyramid inevitably forms. The balls eith...

Znet Article Edwards: Find Me a Way to Do This

Znet Article, February, 06 2004 David Edwards
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Sometimes it really is possible to fail to see the wood for the trees. We need to be clear that Tony Blair is claiming that the threat of Iraqi WMD justified a massive war against Iraq. We are to believe that after a major conflict in which 88,500...

Znet Article Edwards: Guardian Greenwash

Znet Article, January, 28 2004 David Edwards
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"A giant oil company professes to take a 'precautionary approach' to global warming. A major agrochemical manufacturer trades in a pesticide so hazardous it has been banned in many countries while implying that the company is helping to feed the h...

Znet Article Edwards: Logical Media Lunacy

Znet Article, January, 12 2004 David Edwards
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Dotty WatchdogsIn the last hours of a momentous year for the media, both the BBC and ITN reported that Dotty, an English bull terrier owned by Princess Anne, had been cleared by Buckingham Palace of fatally wounding Pharos, one of the Queen's corg...

Znet Article Edwards: Climate Catastrophe

Znet Article, January, 09 2004 David Edwards
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Today's Guardian and Independent newspapers both report that over the next 50 years, global warming could drive a quarter of land animals and plants into extinction. According to a four-year research project by scientists from eight countries, pub...

Znet Article Edwards: The Tyrant With A Thousand Faces

Znet Article, December, 17 2003 David Edwards
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"Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down... Colonies must be obta...

Znet Article Edwards: Johann Hari and Noam Chomsky

Znet Article, December, 06 2003 David Edwards
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On November 20, we received the following email from Johann Hari of the Independent in response to our Media Alert, Friendly Bombs, Part 1 (November 20, 2003): Dear David and David, Thank you for your e-mail. While I obviously disagree profoun...

Znet Article Edwards: Terror And The Whirlwind

Znet Article, November, 21 2003 David Edwards
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No links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, no weapons of mass destruction, and now no question that the invasion of Iraq has led to a massive increase in the threat of terrorism, as the series of bombings across Iraq, in Riyadh (May 12 and Nove...

Znet Article Edwards: Corporate Media

Znet Article, November, 19 2003 David Edwards
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Following the killing of 27 people including 19 Italian troops in Nassiriya on November 12, Channel 4 News presenter, Jon Snow, asked Labour MP Ann Clwyd: "Are we now losing the Shias? That would be a tragedy." We asked Snow to explain the meani...

Znet Article Edwards: Unfinished Business

Znet Article, October, 15 2003 David Edwards
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We receive many interesting, even amazing, responses to our work from the mainstream media. Journalist John Sweeney recently published a letter in the New Statesman in response to one of our articles. The letter began: "David Edwards and David C...

Znet Article Edwards: Lulling us into submission

Znet Article, October, 10 2003 David Edwards
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"The fateful slumber floats and flowsAbout the tangle of the rose;But lo! the fated hand and heartTo rend the slumberous curse apart!"(William Morris, For The Briar Rose)We Don't Run Airline Ads Next To Stories About Airline CrashesThe 'quality pr...

Znet Article Edwards: Killing With Impunity

Znet Article, September, 11 2003 David Edwards
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On ITN's Lunchtime News, political editor Nick Robinson described how "hundreds of [British] servicemen are risking their lives to bring peace and security to the streets of Iraq". (ITN, September 8, 2003)The first part of the description is accur...

Znet Article Edwards: Carnage And Tears

Znet Article, August, 29 2003 David Edwards
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Carnage And Tears

Znet Article Edwards: Blair's Serious And Current Lies

Znet Article, August, 20 2003 David Edwards
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Blair's Serious And Current Lies

Znet Article Edwards: Manufactured Controversies

Znet Article, July, 08 2003 David Edwards
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The 'Nut' Theory Of Dissident Journalism Because dissident arguments are almost never seen in the mainstream media, they often strike the reader as surprising and even shocking. A close friend commented to us recently: "If what you say is true...

Znet Article Edwards: The Killing

Znet Article, June, 18 2003 David Edwards
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Moral Tourism And The Killing It is an elementary truism that suffering caused by our own government should be of far greater concern to us than suffering caused by other governments. While we can do comparatively little to influence the actions ...

Znet Article Edwards: Mass Deception

Znet Article, June, 06 2003 David Edwards
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Among The Knowledgeable The media have erupted with outrage at the allegation that Tony Blair "duped" the public and parliament into fighting a war that had been secretly agreed with George Bush last September. Equally outrageous, however, was t...

Znet Article Edwards: Concealing Catastrophe

Znet Article, May, 22 2003 David Edwards
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In a recent Media Alert, 'Grit Your Teeth - Basic Surgery In "Liberated" Iraq' (May 16, 2003), Media Lens invited readers to ask the BBC and ITN why they had devoted so little coverage to the severe crises afflicting the civilian population of Ira...

Znet Article Edwards: Demoloshing Compassion

Znet Article, May, 15 2003 David Edwards
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You would not be mistaken if you have noticed that there is a certain harshness about mainstream corporate journalists, their reporting and their responses to readers. Anyone who has worked for large corporations, as we have, knows that compassion...

Znet Article Edwards: Chaining The Watch Dog: Part III

Znet Article, May, 07 2003 David Edwards
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"In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim high." (Thoreau) Friendly Fascism In the first two parts of this 3-part series, we showed how systemic media bias constitutes one of many "dangerous ideas" excluded f...

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