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Commentary Schechter: Whats The Best Way To

Commentary, September, 05 2005 Danny Schechter
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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...

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

Commentary, July, 11 2005 Danny Schechter
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...

Commentary Schechter: The Unreported Vietnam-iraq Parallel

Commentary, May, 07 2005 Danny Schechter
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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
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Commentary Schechter: The Passion Of Giuliana Sgrena

Commentary, March, 16 2005 Danny Schechter
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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
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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
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(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...

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

Commentary, January, 08 2005 Danny Schechter
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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:

Commentary Schechter: The Fight for Docu-Democracy

Commentary, December, 23 2004 Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK -- 2004 has been called the Year of Documentaries.

Commentary Schechter: When Wolves Attack: A Pre-Mortem on Election Coverage

Commentary, October, 29 2004 Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, October 25, 2004 -- In it's final days, Campaign 2004 has become even nastier. At the core of this devolution of our politics process sits the campaign media -- a mob of reporters too overworked to stray from the campaigns' master script...

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...

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...

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...

Commentary Schechter: Propa-news And Media Blues

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

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...

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...

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