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Schechter: News About News
Znet Article, December, 27 2005
Danny Schechter
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Perhaps it's just me-but news seems to be coming our way faster and with a greater fury than ever before. A tsunami of "Breaking News" bulletins courses through the veins and ganglia of what passes for an information system. A corporate news syste...
Schechter: Media Scandals Across the Arab Western Divide
Znet Article, December, 12 2005
Danny Schechter
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Shock and awe has given way to a shocking media scandal of the week in Iraq. The latest revelations of pay for play journalism, admitted now to some degree by the Pentagon, is that US government funds are going to pay...
Schechter: Where News About The News Is In The News
Znet Article, August, 28 2005
Danny Schechter
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LONDON, AUGUST 29: A trip to London can be a tonic to media critics like myself who at times despair that the last thing the media in this country discusses is itself. In contrast, the media in London sometimes treats media issues as a font page s...
Schechter: Searching For Truth In The Karl Rove Story
Znet Article, July, 18 2005
Danny Schechter
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New York, July 18: How do we suss out truth from the coverage of the Karl Rove leakgate scandal in a time of deliberate obfuscation and hair-splitting , with endless ways on all sides to avoid and obscure reality? Martin Luther King Jr. used to ...
Schechter: Meet Me In St Louis 2005
Znet Article, May, 11 2005
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, May 8: What would the makers of the MGM classic "Meet Me in St Louis" think of the conclave planned next weekend in St 'Louie' in that Red State many call 'Missoura.' The 1944 movie featured songs by Judy Garland depicting a slice of 190...
Schechter: Covering Elections There, Miscovering Them Here
Znet Article, January, 11 2005
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, January 10, 2005 -- Elections are breaking out all over. The Palestinians voted yesterday in a irregularity-plagued day of balloting. In the Ukraine, they needed two elections to get it right. And at month's end Iraqis will go to the pol...
Schechter: Helicopter Journalism
Znet Article, January, 06 2005
Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, January 5, 2005 -- The lead story from Aceh in today's Washington Post is vivid: The subhead offers its vantage point "Above Indonesia. "LAMNO, Indonesia, Jan. 4 -- From the skies above Aceh's devastated western coastline, no sign of civ...
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...
Schechter: Iraq Scandals
Znet Article, July, 19 2004
Danny Schechter
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Iraq Scandals
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...
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,"...
Schechter: Clarke and Media Failures
Znet Article, March, 31 2004
Danny Schechter
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Clarke and Media Failures
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...
Schechter: Behind Blair vs The Beeb
Znet Article, July, 22 2003
Danny Schechter
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Behind Blair vs The Beeb
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
