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David Edwards (born 1962) is a British media campaigner who specialises in the analysis of corporate media. He is co-editor of the Media Lens website. Born in Maidstone, Kent, Edwards was raised in the village of Bearsted, and spent summers in Sweden, his mother's country of origin. He sees this as influencing his attitudes to modern living.〔Derrick Jensen & David Edwards ("Nothing To Lose But Our Illusions: an interview with David Edwards" ), ''The Sun'' magazine (United States), June 2000, as reprinted on the Media Lens website, 22 June 2000. Jensen reprinted this interview in the book, (''How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization'' ), Oakland: PM Press, 2008, p.11-36. Interview conducted by telephone, 11 January 2000〕 After graduating from Leicester University with a Politics degree he worked in sales and marketing management for several large corporations, but became profoundly dissatisfied with the corporate working environment. According to Edwards, while working at British Telecom in the late 1980s, his employment there became untenable after he attempted to set up a "green initiatives" project.〔 In 1991 he left the business world completely, and began his writing career, earning most of his income as a teacher of English as a second language.〔 After his articles were published on human rights and environmental issues by independent magazines and journals (such as ''Z Magazine''), Edwards wrote his first book, ''Free to be Human'', (Green Books, 1995),〔Sam de Brito ("Free to be human" ), ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 30 November 2011〕 which later appeared in the United States as ''Burning All Illusions: a Guide to Personal and Political Freedom'' (South End Press, 1996). It relies 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 wrote about these themes in an exchange of open letters with Caspar Henderson. See ("Can we trust the media on the environment?" ), ''The Ecologist'', 9 June 2000〕 Edwards has also drawn on his practice of Buddhism in his writings.〔See the last chapter of ''Newspeak in the 21st Century'' (London: Pluto, 2009) where Edwards explains this part of his life.〕 Edwards, writing for the New York-based ''Tricycle: The Buddhist Review'' in 2005, commented: "The antidotes to systemic greed, I am convinced, are political movements motivated by unconditional compassion for suffering. This compassion needs to be rooted in genuinely profound and authentic sources—the kind provided today by the best Buddhist teachers and organisations."〔David Edwards ("Life or Death: Media watchdog David Edwards spurs Buddhists to action" ), ''Tricycle'', Fall 2005〕 With David Cromwell, Edwards is the co-editor of Media Lens, a website devoted to correcting what they perceive as bias in the British mass media. The Media Lens' editors have collaborated on two books, ''Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media'' (2006) and ''Newspeak in the 21st Century'' (2009). ==Bibliography== * Edwards, David (1998) ''The Compassionate Revolution: Radical Politics and Buddhism'', Dartington: Green Books * Edwards, David (2000) ''Free to Be Human: Intellectual Self-defence in an Age of Illusions'', Dartington: Green Books (published in America as ''Burning all Illusions'') * Edwards, David (2005) ''Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media'', London: Pluto Press * Edwards, David (2009) ''Newspeak in the 21st Century'', London: Pluto Press * Edwards, David (2010) "Normalising the unthinkable: The media's role in mass killing", in ''Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution'', ed. Richard Lance Keeble, John Tulloch, Florian Zollman, New York: Peter Lang 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Edwards (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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