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.
In regular 'Media Alerts' the editors' attempt to expose what they consider to be serious examples of bias, omission or deception in the British mainstream media, with an emphasis on media outlets legally obliged to be impartial (the BBC and Channel 4 News) or considered liberal like The Guardian (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.
Media Lens is admired by John Pilger, who has written about their "remarkable website", Other journalists, not necessarily identified with the left, have also made positive comments about the group, but it has come into conflict with others. In mid-2008, journalist Bronwen Maddox, then with The Times, complained about "threatening emails from visitors to Media Lens", although very few were quoted.
Others have claimed the group had a "campaign" against John Sloboda and the Iraq Body Count. George Monbiot has also criticized Media Lens for their apparent defence of Edward S. Herman Oliver Kamm has been blunt, Media Lens "stands with genocide deniers" in its connection with Herman and his colleague, David Peterson.
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—John Berger (b. 1926)