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Media Lens is a British media analysis website established in 2001 by David Cromwell and David Edwards. The site is financed by donations from its supporters. The aim of the website's two editors is to scrutinise and question the mainstream media's coverage of significant events and issues and to draw attention to what they consider "the systemic failure of the corporate media to report the world honestly and accurately".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=20 )〕〔 Cromwell and Edwards, who remain the site's editors, write regular 'Media Alerts' concentrating on those mainstream media outlets legally obliged to be impartial (the BBC and ''Channel 4 News'') or usually considered liberal〔Neil Clark ("The Left vs. the Liberal Media" ), ''The American Conservative'', 15 May 2013〕 like ''The Guardian''〔Peter Wilby ("On the margins", ) ''New Statesman'', 30 January 2006〕 and ''The Independent''. Media Lens frequently disputes the impartiality of the BBC and draws attention to what it sees as the limits within which the liberal press operates. The editors invite their readers to challenge journalists, editors and programme producers directly via email, specifically discouraging abusive contact.〔At the end of each alert is the advice: "The goal of Media Lens is to promote rationality, compassion and respect for others ... we strongly urge you to maintain a polite, non-aggressive and non-abusive tone." See for example: Edwards and Cromwell ("Three Little Words: WikiLeaks, Libya, Oil" ), Media Lens, 22 June 2011〕 Media Lens has gained the approval of John Pilger, who has written about the group's "remarkable website",〔John Pilger ("The cyber guardians of honest journalism", ) ''New Statesman'', 29 November 2007〕 Other journalists, not necessarily identified with the left, have also made positive comments about the group, although it has come into conflict with others. ''The Observers foreign editor Peter Beaumont asserted that the group operated a "campaign" against John Sloboda and the Iraq Body Count.〔Peter Beaumont ("Microscope on Medialens" ), ''The Observer'', 18 June 2006. See also ("A Superb Demolition – Part 3 – Squeaky Spleen – Beaumont Strikes Back" ), Media Lens, 28 June 2006〕 George Monbiot has also criticised Media Lens for their defence of Edward S. Herman.〔George Monbiot ("Left and libertarian right cohabit in the weird world of the genocide belittlers" ), ''The Guardian'', 13 June 2011〕 Graham Murdock and Michael Pickering describe their work as providing "a riveting expose of the myth of liberal media based on a variety of empirical case studies". ==History and activities== By the late 1990s, David Edwards had concluded that there was a "media suppression of the truth about the effect of the sanctions" against Iraq, and an indifference to climate change: "the media were still celebrating the idea that Britain might soon be blessed with a Mediterranean climate."〔Sam Walby ("Interview with David Edwards from Media Lens" ), UK Indymedia, 10 May 2011.Interview also reproduced at ("Interview with David Edwards" ), ''Now Then'' magazine, (2011 )〕 Meanwhile, Cromwell had found coverage of certain issues to be "paltry",〔David Cromwell ''Why Are We the Good Guys?'' Alresford: Zero Books, 2012, p.30〕 and had gained a negligible response from the newspapers to which he had written.〔Cromwell ''Why Are We the Good Guys?'', p.35〕 The two men first met in 1999, and Edwards suggested beginning a collaborative website.〔Joan Pedro ("Interview with David Edwards and David Cromwell of Media Lens" ), alterzoom website, 6 October 2007〕 Since then, in regular Media Alerts, the editors (and other contributors) scrutinise media coverage in terms of the arguments used, source selection, and the framing of events to highlight what they see as incidents of bias, omissions, or direct lies. The editors frequently engage in email exchanges with British journalists and editors,〔 as well as encouraging their readers to do the same through email campaigns.〔.〕〔See for example ("The Balance of Power – Exchanges With BBC Journalists" ), Media Lens, 15 October 2009.〕 The website is maintained by webmaster Oliver Maw, and is financed through voluntary subscription and has received donations from grant-funding bodies in the past. Their media alerts are published online and distributed without charge by email to an international readership, according to Media Lens in 2009, of around 14,000 people.〔Judith Townend ("Q&A: Media Lens – 'Our book will likely be more or less ignored, as other similar books have been'" ), Journalism (website), 2 December 2009〕 The Media Lens website hosts a message board and a discussion forum, used for political and media issues. Cromwell and Edwards have also written several books, in collaboration or separately, which develop the themes and topics covered by the website with further arguments and content. 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「Media Lens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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