Danny Schecter
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Julian Assange receives 4th Annual DANNY Award for Journalism
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has been granted the 2019 Danny Schechter Global Vision Award for Journalism & Activism by not-for-profit educational foundation The Global Center. As a press release announcing the award explains, The DANNY is “awarded annually to an individual who best emulates Schechter’s practice of combining excellent journalism with social advocacy and activism.” Continue reading
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Video: Peter Hart on Analyzing and Improving Media
Danny Schecter talks to Peter Hart, Activism Director at FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting). Continue reading
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“We Steal Secrets” The New Movie About Wikileaks Infuriates Wikileaks By Danny Schecter
You could say that Wikileaks, the subject of We Steal Secrets also began with a fury – a fury against war and secrecy, and was moving as fast as it could to challenge media complacency in the digital realm. Now, it is being ganged up on by a media that invariably builds you up before… Continue reading
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Two Icons, Two Deaths, Two Worlds: The Media Simplified Them Both By Danny Schechter
The world has said goodbye to two leaders who were worlds apart. One was a widely celebrated anti-communist, the other a widely despised communist. However, both the lives and thoughts of the Czech Republic’s Vaclav Havel, and North Korea’s Kim Jung-il were given short shrift. Continue reading
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Movement Moves On After Police Occupy the OWS Park BY Danny Schecter
Liberty Square/Zuccotti Park had now been power cleaned and was pristine when activists were allowed to reenter without tents or sleeping bags, More than 200 had been arrested in the takeover that included teargas and selective physical violence against resisters. Continue reading
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You Say You Want A Revolution. What Will Happen To Occupy Wall Street If It Loses Its Park? By Danny Schechter
The hard real-world contradictions of urban life have bumped up against the idyllic hopes of the occupiers as all the urban crises that our society has ignored and neglected surface in that half acre of hope. Continue reading
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THE SLIME UNWINDS; MURDOCH MEDIA UNDER ATTACK By Danny Schecter
Rupert Murdoch withdrew his bid for British broadcaster BSkyB on Wednesday in the face of cross-party hostility in parliament following allegations of widespread criminality at one of his tabloid newspapers. Continue reading
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21 YEARS AFTER “FREEDOM:” SOUTH AFRICA’S CANCER OF CORRUPTION AND ‘CULTURE OF CONCEALMENT’ By Danny Schechter
Twenty one years after Nelson Mandela walked free, corruption has become the issue du jour in South Africa. Continue reading
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The Martin Luther King Legacy and The Global Economic Crisis: Can One Influence the Other? By Danny Schechter
We live in a world of constantly redrawn battle lines where new generations displace the old ones and some of yesterdays leaders move to higher levels of consciousness while many others like Libya’s human rights abusing leader Gaddafi along with some civil rights leaders who, years ago, secretly joined Washington’s crusade against Malcolm. Continue reading
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Mummies and Dummies: Leave Or Stay, The Egyptian Crisis Will Only Get Deeper With No Quick Fix Likely By Danny Schechter
The tomb may be the appropriate metaphor not only for wannabe President for forever Hosni Mubarak but also for the 30 plus year neo-colonial economic system that he has presided over. Not surprisingly Frank Wisner Jr, the former U.S. Ambassador and son of a CIA dirty tricksters, wants the President to stick around –in the… Continue reading
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Danny Schecter on US Banks
15 December, 2010 — The News Dissector 1st collector for Danny Schecter on US Banks Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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The secret war between Wikileaks and the Pentagon, (and some media outlets) By Danny Schechter
Wikileaks introduced the significance of their immense treasure trove of secrets on their website this way: “The 391,832 reports (‘The Iraq War Logs’), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United… Continue reading
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Your Bank’s Crimes Crashed the Economy
In this scene from Danny Schechter’s investigative documentary ‘PLUNDER: THE CRIME OF OUR TIME’, fraud and collusion between mortgage companies, banks, and Wall Street firms is exposed. BandedArtists Continue reading
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Breaking my silence By Danny Schecter
Danny Schecter on US media coverage of the attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Continue reading
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Danny Schecter on Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs is to “sue for peace” in the fraud trial bought by the Securities Exchange Commission and offer to admit to a lesser charge of negligence if the main charges are dropped. Continue reading
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All the (un)usual suspects. What is RT.com up to? By William Bowles
Full page ads in the London Independent? Though the word ‘Russia’ is nowhere to be seen, instead it’s RT.com, what we used to know as Russia Today. But RT.com is a far cry from its crude beginnings four years ago as a mouthpiece for the Russian state. The question is, what kind of animal is… Continue reading
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The Disaster Within The Disaster: Its Time To Investigate the Aid Fiasco By Danny Schechter
19 January, 2010 — Media Channel Haiti remains a death trap, with an aid program that has sat by and watched thousands die without relief. The International Red Cross describes the situation there as a catastrophe while the American Red Cross reports raising more than $100 million dollars thanks to texting technologies and backing from Continue reading
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