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New York, New York: Good news amidst the bad at CBS: Their drama, “Criminal Minds” had its biggest audience this week. Am…
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.
New York, New York: I was among the many media wannabe reformers to attend the tenth anniversary party of Free Press (freepress.net),…
A former South African minister, businessman and freedom fighter is arrested at a New York airport. Why? He's on a terror watch…
First we had Spymaster James Clapper dismissing concerns about NSA spying abuses denounced worldwide with a reference to the movie Casablanca. (His…
Facebook struck what it thought was a blow for freedom of expression: It is now going to allow beheadings to be seen…
Behind the Shutdown was a politics of right-wing movement building to raise money and visibility by raising hell. Obamacare had nothing to…
Bali, Indonesia: When you arrive in Bali, the most diverse and popular of Indonesia’s 7000 plus Islands, you are immediately confronted with…
What is the Tea Party and where did it come from? Was it a grass roots movement nurtured in the bowels of…
New York, New York: Media outlets love anniversaries. They become the makers and news-pegs for one day stories that become pretexts for…
It looks like two great events may be converging. First, the announced, then put off, and, now, increasingly back on US punitive…