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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.

Commentary Schechter: Crisis Capsule

Commentary, December, 15 2002 Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, Dec 12, 2002 -- When the story broke, there was the gasp of "Gotcha!" in the world's news rooms. Finally, after all these weeks of those faceless inspectors racing around the boonies of Iraq to visit sites they've seen before, we have a ...

Commentary Schechter: What's A Journalist To Do When The Political Gets Personal?

Commentary, April, 17 2002 Danny Schechter
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When you write about the world, or report on what's happening "over there," the issues can seem far away enough to permit disengagement. The distance encourages detachment and objectification.

Commentary Schechter: The FCC And "We": A Media Sermon From Mount Dissector

Commentary, March, 09 2002 Danny Schechter
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And then unto China came POTUS (President of the United States, in the lingo of the Secret Service), a messenger from the Republic of Enron, to preach the gospel about the path to true freedom. Go ye, he urged, beyond Maoism. Beyond Marxism. And y...

Commentary Schechter: Where Is AIDS Among The A-List Topics?

Commentary, February, 15 2002 Danny Schechter
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Think about what happened the other day. Enron hearings opened to an Standing Room Only crowd on Capitol Hill. The sleaze was about to start gushing out and then, the TV picture shrinks and another story interrupts. Breaking News displaces Breakin...

Znet Article Schechter: Black Hawk -- and Truth -- Down

Znet Article, January, 08 2002 Danny Schechter
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I went to a war last night, and for two and half hour had my adrenaline pumped and my patriotic heart strings tugged by U.S. soldiers in battle, bravely tracking down and trying to capture the enemy. No it wasn't Osama, because the movie which fel...

Commentary Schechter: After The Media Recount: Who Will Apologize To The People?

Commentary, November, 24 2001 Danny Schechter
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The long-awaited recount of the results of the 2000 presidential election, begun with so much hope and investigative enterprise by a consortium of leading U.S. media organizations, came and went with a whimper not a bang. Released on Sunday, Novem...

Commentary Schechter: IMMOLATE THIS

Commentary, February, 20 2001 Danny Schechter
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What could be more dramatic? People setting themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing. CNN is there. The police just happen to have fire extinguishers on hand. The victims are rushed to a hospital but only after their agonies ...

Commentary Schechter: The Media And HIV/AIDS: What Should We Do?

Commentary, December, 02 2000 Danny Schechter
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Sorry. So sorry if you were given "unnecessary offense." So sayeth the BBC as part of an apology for a stunt concocted for a TV show that plays practical jokes on the public. "Aunty," as the Beeb is known, hired a child actor to pose as an Afric...

Commentary Schechter: RED STAR OVER THE UN: The Media Downplays Human Rights in China

Commentary, October, 15 2000 Danny Schechter
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As the United Nations opens its Millennial Summit in New York September 6 with an expected 150 heads of state in attendance, the world organization is trying to refocus its mission and revive its credibility. (Never mind the cost of staging the wo...

Commentary Schechter: From Sydney To Prague: Newspeak Clouds Global Coverage

Commentary, September, 28 2000 Danny Schechter
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LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND: Poor NBC. They spent a small fortune to scoop up the rights to the Olympic Games, and now no one in the United States is watching. To get the games, they paid buckeroo bucks, even reportedly "donating" a cool million to the ...

Commentary Schechter: Surviving "Survivor" While Thinking Of Abbie

Commentary, September, 25 2000 Danny Schechter
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Wonder what Mr. Survival of the Fittest Charles Darwin would be thinking as the surreality show "Survivor" moves from the realm of television into the arena of TV legend. CBS has cashed in already, and all l6 of the "survivors" of this staged sitc...

Commentary Schechter: Looking Back: "Leave It To Lieberman"

Commentary, September, 06 2000 Danny Schechter
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Don't say independent media analysts can't get on the air. On Wednesday might, hours before Joe Lieberman would speak to the Democratic Convention, Seth Ackerman was invited to have his say. Seth, who works with Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ...

Commentary Schechter: Speaking Back to the Media

Commentary, August, 20 2000 Danny Schechter
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There used to be something called equal time and the right to reply to TV editorials and coverage. I am reminded of this by the publication, in a thin booklet called Poems for the Nation, of the text of a previously unpublished television address ...

Commentary Schechter: Long Live Chairman Levin!

Commentary, July, 23 2000 Danny Schechter
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A long time ago, in the days when evil empires threatened freedom-loving peoples everywhere, there were a few men we were taught to fear. They led massive, top-down international networks of true believers committed to infiltrating our minds and w...

Commentary Schechter: MBEKI's MUDDLE South Africa's Aids Debate

Commentary, July, 13 2000 Danny Schechter
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Durban, South Africa: What was Mbeki going to say? That's what the press and the crowd packed into the Kingsmead Cricket stadium were buzzing about as they waited May 9th under an African sky threatening rain for South Africa's second democratical...

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