Media Lens
Screenshot from Media Lens (22 March 2013)
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Media analysis |
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| Available in | English |
| Editor | David Cromwell and David Edwards |
| Website | www |
| Launched | 2001 |
Media Lens is a British media analysis website established in 2001 by David Cromwell and David Edwards. The aim of the website's two editors and only regular contributors 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".
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 like The Guardian and The Independent. The site's editors frequently draw attention to what they see as the limits within which the liberal media operates, and provide "a riveting expose of the myth of liberal media based on a variety of empirical case studies", according to Graham Murdock and Michael Pickering.
Media Lens has gained the approval of John Pilger, who has written about the group's "remarkable website". 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 Observer's foreign editor Peter Beaumont asserted that the group operated a "campaign" against John Sloboda and the Iraq Body Count.George Monbiot has also criticised Media Lens for their defence of Edward S. Herman against charges of "belittling the acts of genocide".
Cronwell and Edwards invite their readers to challenge journalists, editors and programme producers directly via email, specifically discouraging abusive contact. The site is financed by voluntary user donations.
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