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Znet Article Edwards: Iraq: Panorama Editor And Guardian Editor Respond

Znet Article, November, 27 2002 David Edwards
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As the war clouds continue to gather over the Gulf, the latest opinion polls show that fully 40% of the British electorate are against war on Iraq. Anyone who has been monitoring the media with any consistency can only view these figures with horr...

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq: BBC World Service Editor Responds

Znet Article, November, 15 2002 David Edwards
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In response to our recent Media Alert - Our Pravda: The BBC, Panorama and Iraq (November 8, 2002) - we received these emails from Bill Hayton of the BBC's World Service: Hi, Having read some of your material from time to time and agreed with part...

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq And Arms Inspectors

Znet Article, November, 12 2002 David Edwards
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Media Lens has recently published several Media Alerts focusing on US/UK media coverage of Iraq, arms inspectors and the looming war (see Media Alerts Archive: www.medialens.org). A front-page article in yesterday's Guardian reported: "The Britis...

Znet Article Edwards: Our Pravda, The BBC, Panorama and Iraq

Znet Article, November, 11 2002 David Edwards
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The truth is that you don't get very far in the mainstream media if you offend powerful interests. The BBC's John Simpson "was promoted with spectacular rapidity", Oliver Burkeman notes in the Guardian. The ascent came to a swift end when Simpson ...

Znet Article Edwards: Unique Threats Profitable Responses

Znet Article, November, 01 2002 David Edwards
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Unique Threat - No.1: In April 1950, the US National Security Council Directive 68 (NSC68) stated: "The Soviet Union, unlike previous aspirants to hegemony, is animated by a new fanatic faith, antithetical to our own, and seeks to impose absolut...

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq And Arms Inspectors: part two

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 David Edwards
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What A Difference 3 Years Makes: UK News Coverage of Why the Inspectors Left Iraq In 1998 and 1999 it was difficult for the media to avoid some of the more obvious facts about the withdrawal of arms inspectors from Iraq in December 1998. NBC Toda...

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq And Arms Inspectors: The big Lie

Znet Article, October, 28 2002 David Edwards
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Introduction To read the 34 short pages (pp.20-54) at the heart of former chief UN arms inspector Scott Ritter's book, War On Iraq (Ritter and William Rivers Pitt, Profile Books, 2002), is to understand the utter fraudulence and staggering immora...

Znet Article Edwards: Idolaters, Inc.

Znet Article, October, 09 2002 David Edwards
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Pacifying people by passing over Western crimes and focusing laser-like on the crimes of demonised enemies is one thing. Infinitely more effective, however, is to simply persuade the public that worrying about political issues is best left to the ...

Znet Article Edwards: Hide The Looking Glass

Znet Article, September, 26 2002 David Edwards
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When order and symmetry manifest in the natural world in the absence of conscious design, we feel a sense of wonder - the structural perfection of a snowflake, for example, is remarkable precisely because it is unplanned. Similarly, media reportin...

Znet Article Edwards: Power, Fear, And Silence

Znet Article, September, 19 2002 David Edwards
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It is ironic that when politicians hail the urgent need to defend ourdemocratic traditions, their words are generally communicated by giantmedia corporations, which are essentially totalitarian structures ofpower. There is not even a pretence of d...

Znet Article Edwards: We Cry. We Live. We Feel: September 11 - October 7

Znet Article, September, 13 2002 David Edwards
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Two possible options were immediately obvious in the aftermath of the appalling atrocities of September 11: we could seek to identify and address the true causes of the catastrophe in the real and perceived grievances of those who caused it; or we...

Znet Article Edwards: "Just One Of Those Things"

Znet Article, September, 05 2002 David Edwards
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A rule of thumb for the mainstream media is that the reporting of ideas that are damaging to powerful interests will tend to begin and end at 'square one' - investigation and discussion rarely proceed beyond the superficial. The more influential t...

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq And Nuclear Weapons

Znet Article, September, 05 2002 David Edwards
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Media Lens recently challenged Robert Moore, ITN's Washington Correspondent, on his support for the claim that Iraq might soon be armed with a nuclear weapon. This is a really key claim as it is likely to prove central in determining the extent of...

Znet Article Edwards: "Just One Of Those Things"

Znet Article, September, 04 2002 David Edwards
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A rule of thumb for the mainstream media is that the reporting of ideas that are damaging to powerful interests will tend to begin and end at 'square one' - investigation and discussion rarely proceed beyond the superficial. The more influential t...

Znet Article Edwards: "Just One Of Those Things"

Znet Article, September, 04 2002 David Edwards
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A rule of thumb for the mainstream media is that the reporting of ideas that are damaging to powerful interests will tend to begin and end at 'square one' - investigation and discussion rarely proceed beyond the superficial. The more influential t...

Znet Article Edwards: Conspiracy Free Conformity

Znet Article, August, 08 2002 David Edwards
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Chemistry teachers have long delighted students by showing how near-perfect symmetrical structures can be produced by pouring a large number of small balls into a square box, whereupon a perfect pyramid is inevitably produced. The balls either lan...

Znet Article Edwards: Mother Of All Ironies pt. 2

Znet Article, July, 01 2002 David Edwards
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On June 24, 2002, Media Lens published a Media Alert: 'John Sweeney Of The Observer And The BBC on Mass Death In Iraq'. Also on June 24, we received this reply from John Sweeney:"I don't agree with torturing children. Get stuffed." (Email to Media...

Znet Article Edwards: The Mother Of All Ironies

Znet Article, June, 25 2002 David Edwards
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The fate of Iraq lies in the balance. US Republican Hawks are seeking to launch a further massive attack against the people of Iraq. It won't happen if politicians sense sufficient public opposition - journalists play a key role in influencing tha...

Znet Article Edwards: The Mother Of All Ironies

Znet Article, June, 25 2002 David Edwards
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 The fate of Iraq lies in the balance. US Republican Hawks are seeking to launch a further massive attack against the people of Iraq. It won't happen if politicians sense sufficient public opposition - journalists play a key role in influenci...

Znet Article Edwards: East Timor And The British Press

Znet Article, May, 31 2002 David Edwards
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The emergence of an independent East Timor on May 20 this year provided a good example of how the British 'free press' cover up Western crimes. Many reports, though not all, mentioned that around 200,000 East Timorese - a quarter of the population...

Znet Article Edwards: Burying Big Business

Znet Article, May, 24 2002 David Edwards
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One of the secrets of media manipulation is to report the horror and strife of the world as though Western power, interests and machinations did not exist. Vast poverty, injustice and chaos in the Third World are depicted as unconnected to the coo...

Znet Article Edwards: A Tale Of Two 'massacres' - Jenin And Racak

Znet Article, May, 02 2002 David Edwards
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"I think newsmen are inclined to side with humanity rather than with authority and institutions." (Quoted Schechter, The More You Watch, The Less...

Znet Article Edwards: Ignorance Is Strength

Znet Article, April, 18 2002 David Edwards
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In his book, The More You Watch, The Less You Know, Mediachannel's Danny Schechter reports a study by the University of Massachusetts, which found that people who relied most on television news coverage knew least about the Gulf War and its origin...

Znet Article Edwards: The Bbc, The Sunday Telegraph, And Cancer In Iraq

Znet Article, April, 13 2002 David Edwards
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Regular Media Lens readers will know that we have generally focused on the performance of the 'liberal' media. The reason for this is that we assume that it is obvious that the 'right wing' media - the Times and the Telegraph, for example - is not...

Znet Article Edwards: Media Lens Debate On Iraq Continued

Znet Article, March, 26 2002 David Edwards
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Following our Media Alert Update, 'The Observer's Nick Cohen and Observer Editor Roger Alton Respond On Iraq' (March 20, 2002 - for this and other Media Alerts see: http://www.medialens.org/frameset_alerts.html) Media Lens received this reply...

Znet Article Edwards: All The Bloody Children

Znet Article, March, 20 2002 David Edwards
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Following our Media Alert Update, 'The Observer's Nick Cohen Responds On Iraq' (March 15, 2002), Media Lens received this reply from Nick Cohen on March 15, 2002: "Dear Serviles I would have more respect for you if you showed the smallest awarenes...

Znet Article Edwards: THE OBSERVER'S NICK COHEN RESPONDS ON IRAQ

Znet Article, March, 15 2002 David Edwards
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Following our Media Alert, 'Nick Cohen of the Observer on Iraq, Chomsky and Pilger' (March 13, 2002), Media Lens received this reply from Nick Cohen on March 13, 2002: "The problem with the sanctions cause starvation theory is that: 1. It was neve...

Znet Article Edwards: IRAQ IN THE GUNSIGHTS

Znet Article, February, 28 2002 David Edwards
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In a recent article, Nick Cohen commented on the rationale behind the extraordinary media obsession with predicting the future. Cohen compares BBC journalists with TV crystal ball-gazer, Mystic Meg: "Instead of being honest, broadcasters pose a...

Znet Article Edwards: CLUSTER BOMBS AND "CALAMITY CONDITIONS" IN AFGHANISTAN

Znet Article, January, 24 2002 David Edwards
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Marjan the one-eyed lion is getting "better day by day" according to the latest ITN TV news report - the third so far this year - from Kabul zoo (ITN Evening News, 22 January, 2002). Also doing well is an Asiatic black bear, "the other main casual...

Znet Article Edwards: HISTORY WILL NOT END HERE

Znet Article, January, 23 2002 David Edwards
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"Ha ha ha to the pacifists", wrote Christopher Hitchens in November, as Kabul fell to the combined might of U.S. bombers, the Northern Alliance, and the BBC's 'Simpson of Kabul'. A month later, the victory celebrations continue tirelessly (almost ...

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