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Znet Article Schechter: Is Our Media Covering Its Errors Or Covering Them Up?

Znet Article, August, 16 2004 Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, AUGUST 16: As more mainstream media outlets admit their failures in covering the Iraq War, a question must be asked: are we seeing a real coming to grips with the media role that helped "sell the war" to the American public? Or could the...

Znet Article Schechter: Iraq Scandals

Znet Article, July, 19 2004 Danny Schechter
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Iraq Scandals

Commentary Schechter: Making the Myth, Forgetting the Man

Commentary, June, 08 2004 Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, June 7, 2004 -- In the bad old days of the Cold War, we would learn that a Russian leader died when their TV screens went dark and martial music was all that we heard. Afterwards, their channels filled with non-stop accolades and tribute...

Znet Article Schechter: Media stood silent when torture first came to light

Znet Article, May, 10 2004 Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, May 10, 2004 -- With Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's announcement of an "independent review" board to examine the "abuse" of Iraqi prisoners, we now have three self-described "independent" panels at work. All are stuffed with insi...

Znet Article Schechter: Misreporting 911:

Znet Article, April, 15 2004 Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK April 12: Janet Jackson went from being a cartoon on TV to playing one this past weekend. The singer who outraged one America with her "costume malfunction" during a Superbowl half-time show giving new meaning to the phrase "boob tube,"...

Znet Article Schechter: Clarke and Media Failures

Znet Article, March, 31 2004 Danny Schechter
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Clarke and Media Failures

Commentary Schechter: The Flori-Duh Election

Commentary, March, 07 2004 Danny Schechter
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Commentary Schechter: Their Media War And Ours

Commentary, January, 19 2004 Danny Schechter
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Media went from becoming a complaint to being an issue in 2003. The pathetic cheerleading that called itself TV coverage of the war in Iraq, and the battle to stop new FCC rules demonstrated that there is a large constituency for media activism an...

Commentary Schechter: The Media War Has Come Home

Commentary, November, 24 2003 Danny Schechter
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During the 60's, some elements of the anti-war movement believed that it was time to bring the war home. The idea: give America a taste of what Vietnam was suffering by launching an armed resistance. Their "blows against the empire" were misguided...

Znet Article Schechter: Marching On Washington And Moving In The Movement

Znet Article, August, 27 2003 Danny Schechter
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I can still remember the morning. We had spent the week circulating flyers and trying to anticipate wha...

Zmag Article Schechter: Blogging the War Away

Zmag Article, August, 01 2003 Danny Schechter
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Blogging the War Away

Znet Article Schechter: Behind Blair vs The Beeb

Znet Article, July, 22 2003 Danny Schechter
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Behind Blair vs The Beeb

Commentary Schechter: Now That The Fcc Has Acted, What Is To Be Done?

Commentary, June, 06 2003 Danny Schechter
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It is the day after and the media world and the emerging movements that oppose its growing power have a choice: Acceptance or resistance? The 3-2 FCC decision along party lines yesterday, was branded "the most far reaching deregulatory steps taken...

Znet Article Schechter: Calling For A Media Crimes Tribunal

Znet Article, May, 31 2003 Danny Schechter
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By late May, no one in Washington wanted to talk about Iraq any more. Iran had become the enemy du jour as all the familiar tools of media demonization were trotted out as if they were in some playbook of well-worked but successful scenarios for o...

Commentary Schechter: Propa-news And Media Blues

Commentary, May, 04 2003 Danny Schechter
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Propa-news And Media Blues

Znet Article Schechter: War Coverage Goes Wall-To-Wall

Znet Article, March, 19 2003 Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, Mar 19, 2003 -- If you watch American television, it feels like New Year's eve with clocks counting down the minutes before the big ball drops in Times Square. Only this time, the big ball is likely to be a big bomb and the target is Bag...

Znet Article Schechter: Powell Doctrine Or Doctrinaire?

Znet Article, February, 06 2003 Danny Schechter
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It used to be called the Powell Doctrine. Yesterday, it sounded pretty doctrinaire. The thesis: Overwhelm your adversaries. Never fight a war you won't prevail in. And so, Overwhelming force was the mantra again yestrday at the UN as the New York ...

Znet Article Schechter: The "gunfight" At The Un Corral:

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Danny Schechter
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By The media will outnumber the diplomats at the UN today as the curtain rise on what may be the end game of the pre-war phase of the Iraq crisis. Colin Powell had been rehearsing all weekend as his aides and an army of speechwriters stitched toge...

Znet Article Schechter: The "gunfight" At The Un Corral:

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Danny Schechter
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The media will outnumber the diplomats at the UN today as the curtain rise on what may be the end game of the pre-war phase of the Iraq crisis. Colin Powell had been rehearsing all weekend as his aides and an army of speechwriters stitched togethe...

Commentary Schechter: The Power of 'Evil'

Commentary, January, 16 2003 Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, Jan 09, 2003 -- First, there was Austin Powers.

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