David Edwards

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Person.png David Edwards  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(activist, editor)
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David Edwards (left) and David Cromwell of Media Lens receive the Gandhi Foundation Peace Award, 2 December 2007
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David Edwards is a Media Lens editor.

He has had articles published in The Independent, The Times, Red Pepper, New Internationalist, Z Magazine, The Ecologist, Resurgence, The Big Issue. He is a monthly ZNet commentator; author of Free To Be Human - Intellectual Self-Defence in an Age of Illusions (Green Books, 1995) published in the United States as Burning All Illusions (South End Press, 1996: www.southendpress.org), and The Compassionate Revolution - Radical Politics and Buddhism (1998, Green Books). [1]

 

Documents by David Edwards

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)Description
Document:Ariel Sharon - War is Peacearticle14 January 2014Israel
Ariel Sharon
Sabra and Shatila massacre
A review of how the western corporate media reported on the legacy of Ariel Sharon following his death in early January 2014, together with evidence of the unreported reality.
Document:Filtering Sources On The Syrian Wararticle4 February 2014Propaganda
Corporate media
2011 Syrian Insurgency
A cogent demonstration of the gross bias of the mainstream media in its coverage of the ongoing 2011 Syrian insurgency. It shows that they are immune to any lessons of their similarly mendacious reporting both before and during the 2003 Iraq war

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/201922 January 201925 January 2019World Economic Forum
Switzerland
WEF/Annual Meeting/202021 January 202024 January 2020World Economic Forum
Switzerland
This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
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References

  1. Media Lens - 'About us' January 2014