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Znet Article Schechter: Pattern Recognition In The Bush Media Era

Znet Article, June, 16 2006 Danny Schechter
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In a remarkable video constructed by David Olson and posted on Mediachannel.org some months back, we hear President Bush speaking explicitly in one of his often incoherent speeches about "catapaulting the propaganda." The President shares his beli...

Znet Article Schechter: The "Elimination" of Zargawi: A New Episode of the Media War

Znet Article, June, 10 2006 Danny Schechter
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New York, June 9, 2006 — Timing is everything. To the managers of the Iraq War, perception has always trumped reality. From the beginning it was a war of media stunts—the attempt to assassinate Saddam with 50 cruise missiles before...

Commentary Schechter: DonÕt Forget: Memorial Day Is About Memory, Not Amnesia

Commentary, May, 28 2006 Danny Schechter
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DonÕt Forget: Memorial Day Is About Memory, Not Amnesia

Commentary Schechter: Don’t Forget: Memorial Day Is About Memory, Not Amnesia

Commentary, May, 28 2006 Danny Schechter
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Don’t Forget: Memorial Day Is About Memory, Not Amnesia

Commentary Schechter: From Hobbes To Your Cell: Hail The Surveillance State

Commentary, May, 26 2006 Danny Schechter
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Commentary Schechter: The Media Shift From Them To Us

Commentary, May, 15 2006 Danny Schechter
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LONDON, MAY 8: The brilliant novelist and media- maker Afshin Rattansi opens his provocative London novel, "The Dream of the Decade," with this quote from the Italian dissident Antonio Gramsci: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the o...

Znet Article Schechter: News Dissector To Press: Investigate Credit Squeeze

Znet Article, April, 28 2006 Danny Schechter
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When I started out, my film was going to be about other people’s economic woes. Pretty soon I realized I was part of this story of how the credit industry targets poor and middle-class Americans. Not only was I a target, too, but all of us...

Commentary Schechter: Fight "Fake News" AND Phony Newscasts

Commentary, April, 25 2006 Danny Schechter
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New York, April 11, 2006: By all means, lets support the campaign against "Fake News" on TV. That's a reference to the undisclosed use by local news outlets of PR company produced ads dressed up to look like news. A study by the Center for Media a...

Commentary Schechter: The Fear Is In The Room: Inside Our Unbrave Media World

Commentary, April, 08 2006 Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK-There is a scene in the movie Good Night and Good Luck about an outbreak of insecurity that nearly ended the late CBS News legend's broadcast challenge to red-hunting Senator Joe McCarthy before it aired.

Znet Article Schechter: Tony Soprano And Iraq

Znet Article, March, 13 2006 Danny Schechter
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"Violence is as American as Cherry Pie."…H.Rap Brown As the Sopranos return to the airwaves for a new season, the likeable Lorraine Bracco who plays show shrink Dr, Melfi was on the Colbert report suggesting that the HBO drama has one soc...

Commentary Schechter: AbramoffÕs White Man's Burden

Commentary, February, 26 2006 Danny Schechter
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Commentary Schechter: Abramoff’s White Man's Burden

Commentary, February, 26 2006 Danny Schechter
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Commentary Schechter: Media Incitement Inflames The Middle East

Commentary, February, 08 2006 Danny Schechter
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Commentary Schechter: After Hamas' Win: Fundamentalist Wars There And Here

Commentary, February, 04 2006 Danny Schechter
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New York, January 30: A battle between fundamentalism and the freedom of a secular society is being waged in many parts of the world-including inside the United States. In other countries, our media is quick to identify religious forces as anti-de...

Znet Article Schechter: News About News

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 Danny Schechter
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Perhaps it's just me-but news seems to be coming our way faster and with a greater fury than ever before. A tsunami of "Breaking News" bulletins courses through the veins and ganglia of what passes for an information system. A corporate news syste...

Znet Article Schechter: Media Scandals Across the Arab Western Divide

Znet Article, December, 12 2005 Danny Schechter
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Shock and awe has given way to a shocking media scandal of the week in Iraq. The latest revelations of pay for play journalism, admitted now to some degree by the Pentagon, is that US government funds are going to pay...

Commentary Schechter: How To Confront The Media

Commentary, November, 10 2005 Danny Schechter
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The idea of confronting the media is a popular one. Dissatisfaction with the devolution of TV News is widespread. Disgust with big media is everywhere even if it sometimes expresses itself with a mistaken belief that the problem is a non-existent ...

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