Daniel Isaac "Danny" Schechter (June 27, 1942 – March 19, 2015) was an American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic.
Daniel Isaac "Danny" Schechter (June 27, 1942 – March 19, 2015) was an American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic. He wrote and spoke about many issues including apartheid, civil rights, economics, foreign policy, journalistic control and ethics, and medicine. While attending the London School of Economics in the 1960s Schechter became an anti-apartheid activist and made trips to South Africa on behalf of the African National Congress (ANC).
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As 'News Dissector' on Boston radio, Danny Schechter literally educated a generation. We need 50, 100, 1000 Danny Schechters. And we need everyone to take his words to heart. - Robert McChesney, Media Historian.
Dissecting the news was Schechter’s thing. He reported to listeners what was happening, then he explained why it was happening, and then he revealed why other media outlets did not tell the whole story
Dissecting the news was Schechter’s thing. He reported to listeners what was happening, then he explained why it was happening, and then he revealed why other media outlets did not tell the whole story. It was bold and daring, and the word of what Danny Schechter was doing on one progressive-rock station in Boston spread far and wide. As ‘News Dissector’ on Boston radio, recalled Chomsky, Danny Schechter literally educated a generation.
Danny Schechter is a journalist, author, television producer and an independent. is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell Oh, George. We need you now, more than ever, ever to help us wade through new words of war by wankers high on high tech. 22 Mayıs 2014, 19:39 · Herkese Açık. 2 Yorum · Haberin Tam Boyutu. Danny Schechter, Brown Girl Collective'nin fotoğrafını paylaştı.
My friend Danny Schechter, "the News Dissector," has passed. He was one of the great innovators of the indy media movement jeremy scahill (myscahill) March 20, 2015. Dissecting the news was Schechter’s thing. AlterNet (rNet) March 20, 2015. Fiercely committed to freedom of the press, Schechter blogged and wrote volumes.
Danny Schechter rose to prominence as the "The News Dissector" on Boston's WBCN radio in the 1970s. But he left corporate media to lead MediaChannel. org and Global Vision. He went on to work as a television producer at ABC's 20/20, where he won two Emmy Awards, and at the newly launched CNN. Schechter wrote 12 books, including "The More You Watch, the Less You Know," and was a leading activist and journalist against apartheid in South Africa, making six nonfiction films about Nelson Mandela. He was a frequent guest on Democracy Now! over the years
Danny Schechter rose to prominence as the The News Dissector on Boston’s WBCN radio in the 1970s. org and Globalvision.
Danny Schechter rose to prominence as the The News Dissector on Boston’s WBCN radio in the 1970s. He went on to work as a television producer at ABC’s 20/20, where he won two Emmy Awards, and at the newly launched CNN. Schechter wrote 12 books, including The More You Watch, the Less You Know, and was a leading activist and journalist against apartheid in South Africa, making six nonfiction films about Nelson Mandela. He was a frequent guest on Democracy Now! over the years.
Journalists and Journalism. Danny Schechter Was Our News Dissector. He used television and film and books and the Internet-where he was a pioneering blogger on media issues-to reveal and challenge the failure of major media to expose human rights abuses abroad and corporate abuses at home.
Danny Schechter, whose media criticism became a staple of Boston radio and who went on to champion human rights as an author, filmmaker and television producer, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 72. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his brother, Bill, said. Mr. Schechter infused almost all his work - whether it was for alternative or mainstream media - with his deep-rooted advocacy of human rights. He was a producer of an award-winning public television series, South Africa Now, and of the ABC News magazine 20/20.