David Edwards (journalist)

David Edwards (journalist)

David Edwards (born 1962) is a British political writer who specializes in the analysis of corporate media. He is co-editor of the Media Lens website.

Born in Maidstone, Kent, Edwards took a degree in Politics at the University of Leicester. He later worked in sales and marketing management for several large corporations. Profoundly dissatisfied with the corporate working environment, in 1991 he left the business world completely, and began his career as a writer, earning his living as a teacher of English.

After many articles published on human rights and environmental issues in a number of independent magazines and journals (such as Z Magazine), Edwards wrote his first book, Free to be Human, (Green Books, 1995), which later appeared in the United States as Burning All Illusions: a Guide to Personal and Political Freedom (South End Press, 1996). It relied heavily on Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's 'propaganda model', as well as on the writings of Erich Fromm. Edwards advanced the thesis that corporate structural factors conspire to make the mass media give a picture of the world that goes beyond the political indoctrination postulated by Herman and Chomsky, to encompass almost all aspects of personal life, by constantly promoting the values of blind consumerism.

Edwards is the co-editor of Media Lens, a website devoted to correcting perceived bias in British mass media. Together with co-editor David Cromwell, he is author of Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media[1] (2006) and Newspeak in the 21st Century (2009).

Bibliography

  • Edwards, David (1998) The Compassionate Revolution: Radical Politics and Buddhism Green Books Ltd
  • Edwards, David (2000) Free to Be Human: Intellectual Self-defence in an Age of Illusions Green Books Ltd (released in America as Burning all Illusions)
  • Edwards, David (2005) Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media Pluto Press
  • Edwards, David (2009) NEWSPEAK in the 21st Century Pluto Press

Notes

  1. ^ Edwards, David; Cromwell, David (2006). Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media. London: Pluto Press. pp. 240pp. ISBN 0745324827. http://www.medialens.org/bookshop/guardians_of_power.php. 

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