Zcom_simple

Back Search Results - New Search

Commentary Schechter: How To Confront The Media

Commentary, November, 10 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

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 ...

Commentary Schechter: Beyond An Encyclopedia: What's Next For Wikimania?

Commentary, October, 12 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

FRANKFURT, GERMANY AUGUST 9 -- In l995, Ward Cunningham, a pioneering Portland, Oregon-based software engineer, had an epiphany and found a name for it. He had used the web to build a productive community of fellow techies who came up with new ide...

Commentary Schechter: Time To Also March On The Media?

Commentary, September, 24 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

That time has come again.

Commentary Schechter: Whats The Best Way To

Commentary, September, 05 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

When John and Yoko sang, "war is over," they added, "if you want it." It was a plea for peace, a call to "stop all the fighting." It was written in l972. That war did not end for three more years, and only then, when the Vietnamese gave the U.S. a...

Znet Article Schechter: Where News About The News Is In The News

Znet Article, August, 28 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

LONDON, AUGUST 29: A trip to London can be a tonic to media critics like myself who at times despair that the last thing the media in this country discusses is itself. In contrast, the media in London sometimes treats media issues as a font page s...

Znet Article Schechter: Searching For Truth In The Karl Rove Story

Znet Article, July, 18 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

New York, July 18: How do we suss out truth from the coverage of the Karl Rove leakgate scandal in a time of deliberate obfuscation and hair-splitting , with endless ways on all sides to avoid and obscure reality? Martin Luther King Jr. used to ...

Commentary Schechter: After The G8: What Now For Eradicating Poverty?

Commentary, July, 11 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

New York, July 9: "What Now?" was all the little sign with a question mark said. It was lost in a sea of much bigger banners with demands for economic justice for Africa. Only one marcher clutched it in a crowd of over 200,000 rallying to Make Pov...

Commentary Schechter: Time To Go?--behind The Calls For An Exit Strategy

Commentary, July, 06 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

Suddenly, the words "exit strategy" has entered into the popular discourse. 41 Congress members have formed an Out of Iraq caucus. Four, including two Republicans are proposing a Congressional resolution to set the date. More newspapers and opinio...

Commentary Schechter: CNN At 25: "the World's Most Trusted Network"

Commentary, June, 13 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

CNN went on the air twenty five years ago this June 1 from the basement of what had been the a Jewish country club in Atlanta, The UN flag was flying overhead as Ted Turner proclaimed his cable revolution with the announcement that the channel tha...

Commentary Schechter: Watch Out World: Al-jazeera Is Going Global

Commentary, May, 18 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

Doha, Qatar: If Doha Is the capital of the state of Qatar (pronounced Cut-ter) known for its 900 trillion standard cubic feet of proven gas reserves (and more than 15.2 BILLION barrels of oil) Al-Jazeera is known here as" the Capitol of Doha," In ...

Znet Article Schechter: Meet Me In St Louis 2005

Znet Article, May, 11 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

NEW YORK, May 8: What would the makers of the MGM classic "Meet Me in St Louis" think of the conclave planned next weekend in St 'Louie' in that Red State many call 'Missoura.' The 1944 movie featured songs by Judy Garland depicting a slice of 190...

Commentary Schechter: The Unreported Vietnam-iraq Parallel

Commentary, May, 07 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

New York May 2: There is a word missing in most of the coverage of Iraq. It's a ghost-laden word that conjures up distressing memories that Washington and most of our media prefer to keep in that proverbial "lock box," hidden away in dusty archive...

Commentary Schechter: Miscovering Anti-war Protest (again)

Commentary, March, 26 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

Mediachannel.org

Commentary Schechter: The Passion Of Giuliana Sgrena

Commentary, March, 16 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

Italian Journalist Giuliana Sgrena became an icon in Iraq, a role model of a caring journalist of conscience kidnapped by parties unknown. He plight mobilized the people of Italy with virtually the whole county demanding her release.

Commentary Schechter: Where Was The Press When This Was Going On?

Commentary, February, 23 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

Perhaps now that "the Gates" have festooned themselves across New York's Central Park, we can bid adieu to the use of that term to connote political scandal. After Watergate, begat Contragate, we have had a cloned procession of almost obligatorily...

Commentary Schechter: Exclusive: The State Of The Media Address

Commentary, February, 09 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

(Disclosure: Mediachanel.org obtained this document from usually unimpeachable sources. We cannot verify it. One document expert we consulted opined that its font style and syntax bears an uncanny resemblance to work written on the G 4 Mac Powerbo...

Znet Article Schechter: Covering Elections There, Miscovering Them Here

Znet Article, January, 11 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

NEW YORK, January 10, 2005 -- Elections are breaking out all over. The Palestinians voted yesterday in a irregularity-plagued day of balloting. In the Ukraine, they needed two elections to get it right. And at month's end Iraqis will go to the pol...

Commentary Schechter: Media Crisis 2004: Summing Up and Moving Forward

Commentary, January, 08 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

NEW YORK, December 17, 2004 -- It is that time of the year again, the time for closing out the news year, a time of summing up, and looking ahead. A year ago, at this time, I wrote:

Znet Article Schechter: Helicopter Journalism

Znet Article, January, 06 2005 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

NEW YORK, January 5, 2005 -- The lead story from Aceh in today's Washington Post is vivid: The subhead offers its vantage point "Above Indonesia. "LAMNO, Indonesia, Jan. 4 -- From the skies above Aceh's devastated western coastline, no sign of civ...

Commentary Schechter: The Fight for Docu-Democracy

Commentary, December, 23 2004 Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page

NEW YORK -- 2004 has been called the Year of Documentaries.

Loading_border