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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.
Now that the war part of the war is over, a media war is heating up as more diverse perspectives emerge within…
NEW YORK, Mar 19, 2003 — If you watch American television, it feels like New Year’s eve with clocks counting down the…
It used to be called the Powell Doctrine. Yesterday, it sounded pretty doctrinaire. The thesis: Overwhelm your adversaries. Never fight a war…
By The media will outnumber the diplomats at the UN today as the curtain rise on what may be the end game…
The media will outnumber the diplomats at the UN today as the curtain rise on what may be the end game of…
NEW YORK, Jan 09, 2003 — First, there was Austin Powers. His nemesis, a cartoonish character called ‘Dr Evil’ was out to…
NEW YORK, Dec 12, 2002 — When the story broke, there was the gasp of “Gotcha!” in the world’s news rooms. Finally,…
When you write about the world, or report on what’s happening “over there,” the issues can seem far away enough to permit…
And then unto China came POTUS (President of the United States, in the lingo of the Secret Service), a messenger from the…