David Edwards

Who is David Edwards?

David Edwards is a British media campaigner who specializes in the analysis of corporate media. He is co-editor of the Media Lens website.

Born in Maidstone, Kent, Edwards is a Leicester University Politics graduate. After working in sales and marketing management for several large corporations, he became profoundly dissatisfied with the corporate working environment. In 1991 he left the business world completely, and began his writing career, earning most of his income as a teacher of English.

After his articles were published on human rights and environmental issues by independent magazines and journals, Edwards wrote his first book, Free to be Human, which later appeared in the United States as Burning All Illusions: a Guide to Personal and Political Freedom. 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 has also drawn on his practice of Buddhism in his writings.