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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.
Ok, I have to admit it, I feel my faith in economic justice is being tested with these stress tests. Truth is,…
More than 50 organizations endorsed a forum this past Friday to discuss the most serious crisis journalistic freedom has faced in decades—a deepening collision over leaks with what has become a national surveillance State
We were all victims of the financial crisis that began in 2007 (not 2008) but some of us suffered more than others
Shoot the messenger and obscure the message
New York, New York: Clearly, there’s an officially sanctioned, if not supported, backlash underway to cast doubt on those who are disseminating…
Perennial NBC Olympic host Bob Costas was downright complimentary, but this thaw in the new cold war between the US and Russia didn’t last more than a few minutes
Our media will remain dominated by the weighty and deceptive thoughts of the rich and powerful, while the voices of the poor and anonymous remain treated only as consumers
In most media, the critique is all about Putin’s motives. He is portrayed as the Darth Vader of Russia
My hunch is that more people earned to care about the world, war and peace, justice and injustice from Pete’s songs than any of the newspapers and magazine