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Znet Article Schechter: Israel and Turkey, Friends No More

Znet Article, September, 19 2011 Danny Schechter
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Turkey is a player in this part of the world and can no longer be sidelined or ignored

Znet Article Schechter: A Counter-Narrative Challenges the Official 911 Story

Znet Article, September, 12 2011 Danny Schechter
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When the whole media system is presenting an official narrative, it is almost impossible for alternative perspectives and critical ideas to be seen and heard

Znet Article Schechter: Oh, The Pain of The Believer

Znet Article, August, 30 2011 Danny Schechter
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I have to admit that I was seduced by the idea of Barack Obama

Znet Article Schechter: The Sabotage of US Finance Reform

Znet Article, June, 12 2011 Danny Schechter
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There are no reforms they won't endlessly amend into oblivion

Znet Article Schechter: Cash And Carry: The Business Of American Politics And Politics As A Business

Znet Article, November, 01 2010 Danny Schechter
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We live in a country in economic distress. Millions are out of work and cutbacks in public services are pervasive at the city and state levels.

Znet Article Schechter: The Disaster Within The Disaster: Its Time To Investigate the Aid Fiasco

Znet Article, January, 20 2010 Danny Schechter
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Haiti remains a death trap, with an aid program that has sat by and watched thousands die without relief. The International Red Cross describes the situation there as a catastrophe while the American Red Cross reports raising more than $100 millio...

Znet Article Schechter: Will Christmas Shopping Save Us? As “Black Friday” Nears, New Questions About An Economic Recovery That Isn’t

Znet Article, November, 24 2009 Danny Schechter
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Funny how, back in 1929, we had black Thursday and then Black Friday as the market crashed, plunging the country into a depression. Now we have every retailer in every mall in America on their knees praying for a prosperous black Friday this week.

Znet Article Schechter: "Where Is The Justice?" Asks FBI Chief As Debate Over Release Of Libyan "Terrorist Heightens."

Znet Article, August, 30 2009 Danny Schechter
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“Where, I ask, is the justice?”

Znet Article Schechter: Can We Stop Banksters From Killing Financial Reform?

Znet Article, August, 20 2009 Danny Schechter
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New York, New York: The thermometer is in the red as the heat of August blends into the steam of the health care fight. These two hot subjects seem to be fogging up TV screens during these dog days as the righteous right take up the tactics of the...

Znet Article Schechter: Are Our Markets Being Manipulated by 'Rogues' or Firms?

Znet Article, August, 09 2009 Danny Schechter
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Everyone has heard of the Wikipedia but not everyone knows about the Investopedia, a Forbes website, that monitors finance for market players. One of the issues it is concerned about is market manipulation, actions by rogue and not so rogue playe...

Znet Article Schechter: Michael, Walter, and Nelson in en Era of Iconomania

Znet Article, July, 27 2009 Danny Schechter
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New York New York: What a time for Iconomania, none of it critical, none of it questioning, none offering deeper perspective or leading to very revealing coverage.

Znet Article Schechter: Call & Responce

Znet Article, July, 14 2009 Danny Schechter
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May I date myself? In my earliest days as an activist, in southern churches in the forefront of the civil rights movement, preachers engaged in call and response. There would be a fiery statement from the pulpit and a loud amen from the congregat...

Znet Article Schechter: The Fog Of Robert McNamara

Znet Article, July, 08 2009 Danny Schechter
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Mac The Knife was a briefer's briefer, great at pointing at maps, with all the self assurance of a former President at the Ford Motor Company. He was the ultimate smartie. (Actually he would have been pleased by what Obama did yesterday in Moscow ...

Znet Article Schechter: The Crime of Our Time: Bernie Madoff Sentenced

Znet Article, June, 30 2009 Danny Schechter
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Madoff's crimes received the media attention they did not just because of their scale but because he ripped off the rich and famous. The millions of poorer subprime borrowers who have lost homes because of Wall Street scams are not considered symp...

Znet Article Schechter: Needed: A New Commission To Probe Corporate Crime

Znet Article, April, 11 2009 Danny Schechter
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This time it's the Millennium Bank in the Eastern Caribbean accused of a mere $65 million dollar rip off. (Ponzi king Bernard Maddoff allegedly took in $65 billion.) Regulators say there is a "ponzimonium" underway with scores of newly opened inve...

Znet Article Schechter: The Financial Crisis Slams Into Europe

Znet Article, March, 13 2009 Danny Schechter
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Obsessed as we are about our own crumbling economy, it's hard for most Americans to see and appreciate the global nature of the crisis and how it is impacting and will impact others throughout the world. We don't recognize how many in other countr...

Znet Article Schechter: Is Who Becomes the Next President All That Matters?

Znet Article, May, 14 2008 Danny Schechter
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In this new world, if we want others to do our bidding, we can't threaten to obliterate them or strut around like Mighty Mouse when so many in the world see us as the Mouse that Roared.

Znet Article Schechter: Will the Mortgage Industry Pay for Its Crimes?

Znet Article, May, 09 2008 Danny Schechter
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There is a time in the life of every writer when you find yourself fearing that you have become a robo call phone machine -- repeating the same message over and over and with diminishing results.

Znet Article Schechter: Our Economic Crisis Must Become the Top Political Issue in 2008

Znet Article, January, 14 2008 Danny Schechter
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Barack Obama's Iowa win has forcefully put the words "hope" and "change" on the national media agenda. His dynamic personality and uber-organized charismatic campaign galvanized attention and support even as his positions on issues seemed less clear.

Znet Article Schechter: Subprime or Subcrime? Time To Investigate and Prosecute

Znet Article, August, 12 2007 Danny Schechter
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Subprime or Subcrime? Time To Investigate and Prosecute

Znet Article Schechter: Don't Be Surprised That Congress Capitulated On The War

Znet Article, June, 01 2007 Danny Schechter
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Oh peaceniks, don't you weep, don't you moan cause pharoh's army got drownded.....

Znet Article Schechter: READING BETWEEN THE LINES TO FIND THE BOTTOM LINE

Znet Article, April, 24 2007 Danny Schechter
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Thank you Harry Reid for acknowledging what the world press has been saying for more than a year...

Znet Article Schechter: BEYOND THE CALL TO SURGE, THE NEED TO PURGE OUR MEDIA

Znet Article, January, 13 2007 Danny Schechter
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New York, New York: In the aftermath of President Bush’s prime-time war cry for escalation from the White House Library, the network newscasters were skeptical about his chances for success but seemed to be impres...

Znet Article Schechter: BEYOND THE CALL TO SURGE, THE NEED TO PURGE OUR MEDIA

Znet Article, January, 13 2007 Danny Schechter
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New York, New York: In the aftermath of President Bush’s prime-time war cry for escalation from the White House Library, the network newscasters were skeptical about his chances for success but seemed to be impres...

Znet Article Schechter: America Is Losing Iraq: Is Anybody Watching?

Znet Article, August, 30 2006 Danny Schechter
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New York, August 29: In the world of mainstream media, there is always something "breaking." Who wants to hear about old news when there are so many new disasters to keep up with? As a new hurricane threatens, the watch is on and reporters get out...

Znet Article Schechter: Is It Time For A Third World War?

Znet Article, July, 18 2006 Danny Schechter
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Is It Time For A Third World War?

Znet Article Schechter: Pattern Recognition In The Bush Media Era

Znet Article, June, 16 2006 Danny Schechter
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In a remarkable video constructed by David Olson and posted on Mediachannel.org some months back, we hear President Bush speaking explicitly in one of his often incoherent speeches about "catapaulting the propaganda." The President shares his beli...

Znet Article Schechter: The "Elimination" of Zargawi: A New Episode of the Media War

Znet Article, June, 10 2006 Danny Schechter
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New York, June 9, 2006 — Timing is everything. To the managers of the Iraq War, perception has always trumped reality. From the beginning it was a war of media stunts—the attempt to assassinate Saddam with 50 cruise missiles before...

Znet Article Schechter: News Dissector To Press: Investigate Credit Squeeze

Znet Article, April, 28 2006 Danny Schechter
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When I started out, my film was going to be about other people’s economic woes. Pretty soon I realized I was part of this story of how the credit industry targets poor and middle-class Americans. Not only was I a target, too, but all of us...

Znet Article Schechter: Tony Soprano And Iraq

Znet Article, March, 13 2006 Danny Schechter
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"Violence is as American as Cherry Pie."…H.Rap Brown As the Sopranos return to the airwaves for a new season, the likeable Lorraine Bracco who plays show shrink Dr, Melfi was on the Colbert report suggesting that the HBO drama has one soc...

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