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Znet Article Edwards: Chaining The Watch Dog pt.II

Znet Article, May, 03 2003 David Edwards
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A reporter who first comes up with an investigative story idea, writes it up and submits it to the editor and is told the story is not going to run. He wonders why, but the next time, he is cautious enough to check with the editor first. He is t...

Znet Article Edwards: Chaining The Watch Dog

Znet Article, April, 30 2003 David Edwards
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"The thoughts of wealth and glory that arise first are like poison ivy: they harm merely by a touch, enchanting and paralysing the mind." (Leaves of the Heaven Tree, 11th Century) Hell, The System Works Just Fine! Gary Webb is a typical example ...

Znet Article Edwards: Killings At Falluja

Znet Article, April, 29 2003 David Edwards
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In a recent Media Alert (Why Even Talk About It? Part 1, April 4, 2003) we reported that the BBC's leading current affairs programme, Newsnight, had devoted 45 seconds to the killing of 62 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's al-Shula market place on Marc...

Znet Article Edwards: Illusions Of Liberty

Znet Article, April, 25 2003 David Edwards
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Iraq is quickly sliding down the order of news stories on our TVs and front pages - the fate of the Iraqi people is already largely veiled in silence. While the media focus switches to the spread of SARS, Iraqi children are being killed by a deadl...

Znet Article Edwards: Moral Meltdown

Znet Article, April, 18 2003 David Edwards
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The fact is that they are deceitful with no wish to deceive, not like Machiavellians, but with no consciousness of their deceit, and usually with the naiive assurance that they are doing something excellent and elevated, a view in which they are p...

Znet Article Edwards: Operation Iranian Freedom

Znet Article, April, 16 2003 David Edwards
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"This war is un-American", writes Jonathan Freedland of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Guardian. America, after all, "still sees itself as the instinctive friend of all who struggle to kick out a foreign occupier - and the last nation on earth to ...

Znet Article Edwards: Falling Into Execute Mode

Znet Article, April, 12 2003 David Edwards
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Man Plus It's Cartoon Time on ITN's Evening News. From a computer-generated street in Baghdad, a radiating signal from US 'special forces' attracts a cartoon Rockwell B-1B 'Lancer' bomber circling "on-call", like a doctor, overhead. Viewers could...

Znet Article Edwards: Vindication - A Statue Falls

Znet Article, April, 11 2003 David Edwards
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On April 9, a US tank recovery vehicle tightened a metal rope and a statue of Saddam Hussein came crashing down in central Baghdad. The event was celebrated by "dozens" of Iraqi people at the scene, according to BBC online, but by hundreds of main...

Znet Article Edwards: Why Even Talk About It? Part II

Znet Article, April, 07 2003 David Edwards
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In researching our latest New Statesman article (April 7, 2003), David Edwards interviewed George Entwistle (March 31, 2003), editor of the BBC's flagship current affairs programme, Newsnight. Part of the interview involved asking Entwistle if for...

Znet Article Edwards: Why Even Talk About It?

Znet Article, April, 04 2003 David Edwards
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"Isn't it in fact true that America, by dint of the very accuracy of the weapons we've seen, is the only potential world policeman?" (Quoted, John Pilger, Hidden Agendas, Vintage, 1998, p.45) Thus, the BBC's David Dimbleby, interviewing a guest,...

Znet Article Edwards: Inferno

Znet Article, March, 28 2003 David Edwards
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Niche Killing It's hard to believe that a little more than one week ago, the Iraqi regime, facing imminent attack, was meekly dismantling its al-Samoud missiles, presenting scientists for interview, and allowing hundreds of air strikes to deplete...

Znet Article Edwards: Falling At The Feet Of Power

Znet Article, March, 21 2003 David Edwards
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"Peoples of Egypt, you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!" (Napoleon Bonaparte, 1798) "Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemi...

Znet Article Edwards: The Ruthless And The Dead

Znet Article, March, 18 2003 David Edwards
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"The American population was bombarded the way the Iraqi population was bombarded. It was a war against us, a war of lies and disinformation and omission of history. That kind of war, overwhelming and devastating, waged here in the US while the Gu...

Znet Article Edwards: When Consumers Become Citizens

Znet Article, March, 12 2003 David Edwards
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The word that keeps tumbling out of the mouths of journalists - often, we suspect, to their horror - is the adjective 'unprecedented'. The 2 million strong peace march in London was 'unprecedented'. The round of applause at the UN Security Council...

Znet Article Edwards: Liberation Into Tyranny

Znet Article, March, 10 2003 David Edwards
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"We are not a young people with an innocent record and a scanty inheritance. We have engrossed to ourselves... an altogether disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world. We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be l...

Znet Article Edwards: Outrageous Omissions

Znet Article, March, 01 2003 David Edwards
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The Bush and Blair governments are dragging the public kicking and screaming into a war that threatens to plunge the world into chaos and which almost nobody wants. Like an occupying force, British politicians representing elite interests from bot...

Znet Article Edwards: Civil Disobedience

Znet Article, February, 26 2003 David Edwards
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"The killed will be covered with earth and lime, and once more all the crowd of deluded men will be led on and on till those who have devised the project weary of it, or till those who thought to find it profitable receive their spoil. And so once...

Znet Article Edwards: Blair's Betrayal: Part 3

Znet Article, February, 19 2003 David Edwards
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Introduction - Passionately 'Sincere' Truth Reversal In Parts 1 and 2 of this three-part Media Alert, we showed the dramatic extent to which Tony Blair has attempted to deceive the British public on Iraq. In an earlier Media Alert (February 3, 20...

Znet Article Edwards: Blair's Betrayal: Part 2

Znet Article, February, 11 2003 David Edwards
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In Part 1 we showed how Tony Blair profoundly misled the British public on the 'threat' posed by Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) during a recent BBC2 Newsnight interview and debate. Blair claimed that Unscom inspectors (1991-98) ...

Znet Article Edwards: Blair's Betrayal: Part 1

Znet Article, February, 10 2003 David Edwards
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The French and German governments have acted for sanity and hope by proposing a peace plan that involves the tripling of UN weapons inspectors in Iraq possibly backed up by thousands of UN troops. In a public debate, German foreign minister, Josch...

Znet Article Edwards: Tortured Liberals

Znet Article, February, 07 2003 David Edwards
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Army Of Mothers On January 29 the front page of the Daily Mirror carried a full-page picture of Tony Blair with dripping red fingers and palms. The title in large letters: 'Blood On His Hands'. On pages 4 and 5, John Pilger's article, 'Bloody Cow...

Znet Article Edwards: Questions For Tony Blair

Znet Article, February, 04 2003 David Edwards
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Below we present an analysis detailing the development of Tony Blair's stance on Iraq. It shows quite clearly that Blair's conversion to fearing Iraq as an alleged terrible threat to UK security occurred dramatically about twelve months ago after ...

Znet Article Edwards: Lie And Rely

Znet Article, January, 29 2003 David Edwards
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Goebbels - A Beginner's Guide "If war is to be averted, then Saddam Hussein and his scientists have to do much more to satisfy the United Nations." (ITN, 11:00 News, January 24, 2003) So argues ITN's Kevin Dunn. It is certainly one interpretatio...

Znet Article Edwards: Two Words: Government Lies

Znet Article, January, 22 2003 David Edwards
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Two Words: Government Lies

Znet Article Edwards: The Bitter Ironies Of Propaganda

Znet Article, January, 15 2003 David Edwards
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"O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing...

Znet Article Edwards: Millions Of Suffering Iraqis: A 'Blip' In The Global Economy?

Znet Article, January, 08 2003 David Edwards
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A notable feature of the liberal press is the columnist who speaks loftily of 'geopolitics', prosecuting war on 'successful military terms', and of 'global threats' from 'rogue states', while also espousing humane values including an apparent conc...

Znet Article Edwards: ITN Declares War On Iraq

Znet Article, December, 21 2002 David Edwards
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Any lingering notions that we have an independent and free media system must surely be evaporating under the vast weight of evidence emerging as the US and Britain manipulate and deceive their way to a war for control of Iraq's oil. Consider tonig...

Znet Article Edwards: Final Exchange With George Monbiot On The Guardian And The Propaganda Model

Znet Article, December, 11 2002 David Edwards
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In response to our recent Media Alert Update, "George Monbiot Responds Again on Iraq and 'Just War'" (December 7, 2002), Monbiot has sent the following response. He has also published a Guardian article ('Who guards the guards', December 10, 2002)...

Znet Article Edwards: Just War and A Dissident's Role

Znet Article, December, 07 2002 David Edwards
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In response to our recent Media Alert Update, "George Monbiot Responds on Iraq and 'Just War'" (December 2, 2002), Monbiot has sent the following response: Dear MediaLens, Two issues appear to divide us, one philosophical, one practical. The ph...

Znet Article Edwards: Monbiot Responds To Media Lens

Znet Article, December, 02 2002 David Edwards
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In our recent Media Alert, 'Panorama and Guardian Editors Respond,' (November 27, 2002), we mentioned a recent article by George Monbiot, titled, 'See you in court, Tony,' (The Guardian, November 26, 2002) Monbiot has since responded (see below)....

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