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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.
It was one of those steamy Saturday mornings in August, a time usually called "a dog day", because so little is happening.…
When heads of state personally intervene in matters of espionage, and demand that alleged spies be released or extradited, it is unusual…
Durban, South Africa: It was Nelson Mandela’s birthday, and the international day of service in his honor. The reports were that the…
Durban, South Africa: If I was an ailing Nelson Mandela, and, at all conscious of the storms surrounding me, I might not…
Zanzibar, Tanzania: The Big Show had arrived with the Secret Service bringing all traffic in Dar es Salaam to a halt as…
There’s anger amidst the apprehension in South Africa as the numbers of “journalists” on the Mandela deathwatch grows. Members of his family…
It’s been called “The Long Goodbye” with the world press updating their updates hourly on Nelson Mandela’s health status with lots of…
How ironic. The current NSA spying story broke just as President Obama was huddled on an out-of-the-way estate in California with China's…
It’s hard for me to feel sorry about the travails of the PBS News Hour where bland has been beautiful for years,…