MediaLens
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MediaLens is a media website based in the United Kingdom. It was established in 2001 to highlight serious examples of bias, omission or deception in British mainstream media, with a strong focus on the "liberal" media (BBC, Channel 4 News, The Guardian, et al.), and to encourage members of the public to challenge the relevant journalist, editor, newspaper or broadcaster. It is run by editors David Cromwell and David Edwards, who base their media analyses in Edward Herman and Noam Chomskyīs "propaganda model". The website is maintained by webmaster Philip Chandler, and is financed through voluntary subscription and donations from grant-funding bodies.
The two editors regularly produce "Media Alerts" and frequently engage in dialogue with some of Britain's most respected journalists. MediaLens hosts a 'chat' message board and a discussion forum, used for dissection of political and media issues. Media Alerts, which are free, are distributed worldwide to around 4000 people.
They share the view that "much modern suffering is rooted in the unlimited greed of corporate profit-maximising". They add:
"We accept the Buddhist assertion that while greed and hatred distort reason, compassion empowers it. Our aim is to increase rational awareness, critical thought and compassion, and to decrease greed, hatred and ignorance. Our goal is not at all to attack, insult or anger individual editors or journalists but to highlight significant examples of the systemic distortion that is facilitating appalling crimes against humanity: the failure to communicate the truth of exactly who is responsible for the slaughter of 500,000 Iraqi children under five; the silence surrounding the motives and devastating consequences of corporate obstruction of action on climate change; the true nature, motives and consequences of 'globalisation'; the corporate degradation and distortion of democratic society and culture. Our hope is that by so doing we can help all of us to free ourselves from delusions. In the age of global warming and globalised exploitation these delusions threaten an extraordinary, and perhaps terminal, disaster - they should not be allowed to go unchallenged."
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External links
- MediaLens website (http://www.medialens.org/)