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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 I am reminded of this by the publication, in a thin booklet called Poems for the Nation, of the text of a previously unpublished television address ...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...

Commentary Schechter: Newman's Own PR War (On Nuclear War)

Commentary, June, 11 2000 Danny Schechter
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When he took off his sunglasses, you knew it was screen star Paul Newman. Those blue eyes always give him away. One day last week, I found myself staring into them from behind a video camera, as Newman recorded a message beginning with a recollect...

Commentary Schechter: Rescuing The Children: Elián, AIDS, South Africa and Media

Commentary, May, 16 2000 Danny Schechter
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I can just hear some Hollywood exec wondering if it has "series potential" while watching the dramatic showdown in the latest episode of the Elián González tug-of-war. On April 22 federal agents in a long overdue and overdrawn response "rescued"...

Commentary Schechter: Rescuing The Children: Eli‡n, AIDS, South Africa and Media

Commentary, May, 16 2000 Danny Schechter
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I can just hear some Hollywood exec wondering if it has "series potential" while watching the dramatic showdown in the latest episode of the Eli‡n Gonz‡lez tug-of-war. On April 22 federal agents in a long overdue and overdrawn response "rescued" t...

Commentary Schechter: The News Dissector In Berlin: Media Mergers And Personal Memories

Commentary, April, 29 2000 Danny Schechter
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In my travels to the "Old World," I often discover how "old" some of my own ideas are. In Berlin last week to speak at a media conference, I learned about Tobias Peucer who, as a student at the University of Leipzig, wrote what may have been the w...

Commentary Schechter: 'WE ARE THE WORLD' AS AN OLDIE: "BEEN THERE, DONE THAT"

Commentary, March, 17 2000 Danny Schechter
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As the story is told, it was a slow news day at NBC back in 1985 when staffers looked up at an incoming satellite feed on one of their many monitors. The newsroom fell silent as a parade of harrowing images from the dying fields of Ethiopia stream...

Commentary Schechter: At the Top of the World

Commentary, February, 09 2000 Danny Schechter
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When demonstrators packed the streets of Seattle last December to scuttle the World Trade Organization meeting and shout about their dissatisfaction with economic globalization, some journalists described them as "politically correct" activists.

Commentary Schechter: Attica, Hurricane, and Mumia

Commentary, January, 17 2000 Danny Schechter
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ATTICA! It's a word I hadn't heard in a number of years. It was a word I will never forget, and not just because of Al Pacino's memorable invocation of the term in the movie Dog Day Afternoon. Attica was one of the first stories I dissected in my ...

Commentary Schechter: MY GLOBAL(IZED) NEIGHBORHOOD: TODAY SEATTLE,TOMORROW TIMES SQUARE?

Commentary, December, 12 1999 Danny Schechter
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The protesters who traveled from across the country and the world to Seattle were inspired by the rare chance to go mano a mano with a usually remote manifestation of globalization.

Commentary Schechter: The Media Channel

Commentary, November, 13 1999 Danny Schechter
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An IPO a day seems to keep the market in play as Internet deals continue to hit the jackpot throwing up new e-commerce driven sites and throwing off a new crop of instant gazillionaires. Business schools across the world report their best students...

Commentary Schechter: Dung on All Their Houses - The New Censorship

Commentary, October, 16 1999 Danny Schechter
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On October l, thousands of New York artists, activists and politicians rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum against threats by the city's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to defund one of the city's preeminent cultural institutions because of one painting on...

Commentary Schechter: Fighting for the Soul of the BBC

Commentary, October, 08 1999 Danny Schechter
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British television has become a battleground--literally. On Labor Day, an enraged intruder vaulted over the BBC's new upgraded security barriers, raced up a set of stairs, threw a table through the window of a newsroom, jumped inside and started t...

Commentary Schechter: China on My Mind

Commentary, August, 31 1999 Danny Schechter
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In less than two months, on October 1st, the People's Republic of China turns fifty. Mao's long march liberated a country which in a half century has gone from championing world revolution to building "socialism with Chinese characteristics."

Commentary Schechter: Our Profile and Theirs

Commentary, July, 11 1999 Danny Schechter
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When Dr. W.E.B DuBois predicted the question of color would become the problem of the twentieth century, he was writing before the advent of television, the proliferation of the mass media, and the many uses (and abuses) of the idea of racial prof...

Commentary Schechter: Covering Wars at Home and Abroad

Commentary, May, 11 1999 Danny Schechter
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Had the Marine Corps recruiter not gotten hung up on the fact that Columbine H.S. student Eric Harris lied about taking an anti-depressant, he may very well have been on his way by now to the front lines of Kosovo, the real war he reportedly prefe...

Commentary Schechter: Edward R Murrow Is Dead

Commentary, April, 17 1999 Danny Schechter
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In June 1993, a human rights television program I co-produced obtained remarkable footage from inside Kosovo. We led our "Rights & Wrongs" program with an exclusive from what we called "the next powder keg in the Balkans."

Commentary Schechter: The Talking Kosovo Blues

Commentary, April, 07 1999 Danny Schechter
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It was for me the big booking: an hour on MSNBC in the middle of a crisis. I had pitched the network proposing to talk about the media coverage of the Kosovo catastrophe. As a TV producer, I had been covering the Balkan wars for a public televisio...

Commentary Schechter: Monica Is Now Global

Commentary, March, 20 1999 Danny Schechter
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LONDON: I beat Monica to Borders on London's Oxford Street by two days; La Lewinsky is stopping there on Tuesday at lunch as part of her British tour. She was 'whisked in' by Concorde, of course.

Commentary Schechter: Dung on All Their Houses - The New Censorship

Commentary, March, 16 1999 Danny Schechter
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On October l, thousands of New York artists, activists and politicians rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum against threats by the city's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to defund one of the city's preeminent cultural institutions because of one painting on...

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