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Danny Schechter
Danny Schechter is a founder and the Vice President/Executive Producer of Globalvision, Inc., a media company formed in l987. At Globalvision, he created the award winning series "South Africa Now," which aired for three years. He co-created and co-executive produces "Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television," anchored by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, an award-winning globally distributed weekly television newsmagazine series. Mr. Schechter has also produced and directed seven independent films. Mr. Schechter has written: "The More You Watch, The Less You Know" (Seven Stories Press" (Seven Stories Press and the forthcoming "News Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics (Electron Press.) He is the creator and executive editor of The Media Channel, a media and democracy supersite on the worldwide web. His left involvement stretches back to Ramparts Magazine, through the anti-war and civil rights movements of the sixties, and into the present day.
Earlier this year, I was in Tehran for a conference on Hollywood’s power and impact. It was called “Hollywoodism,” featuring many scholars…
New York, New York: Politicians follow laws or make their own but often don’t think that one of the oldest moral admonitions…
New York, New York: In theory, American elections traditionally get going after Labor Day, but, as we can see by the daily…
When is a massacre a massacre, and how can we find truth in the fog of intense war propaganda? That’s a question…
Hail Caesar! The circle of those of us crusading for a jail-out of banksters, and not another bailout for them is widening.…
Increasingly, politics is a game driven by often-invented beliefs and myths that are firmly detached from facts and their interpretation. The…
We Need A Media War On All Fronts By Danny Schechter News Dissector, Author of Blogothon When do you…
Danny Schechter “dissects” media but he also makes independent documentaries and videos after years as a network producer. This is…
I keep thinking of that clear April night 100 years ago when the unsinkable HMS Titanic steamed towards New York. It was…