Stories by Danny Schechter
Danny Schechter writes the News Dissector blog for MediaChannel.org. His latest book is PLUNDER: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books).
From a broken media, cautious optimism emerges.
Posted on Jan 3, 2006, Source: MediaChannel.org
After a week of mainstream media's Gaza disengagement-related 'hot footage' and 'emotional storytelling,' have we actually learned anything?
Posted on Aug 23, 2005, Source: MediaChannel.org
Danny Schechter reports from Edinburgh, Scotland on this past weekend's Live 8 concerts and protests. Is the "job done," as organizer Bob Geldof proclaimed?
Posted on Jul 6, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In St. Louis last weekend citizens met to discuss ways to 'take back' a media beholden less to democracy than to the bottom line.
Posted on May 19, 2005, Source: MediaChannel.org
The op-ed page is no longer the marketplace of ideas it was established to be.
Posted on Apr 9, 2005, Source: TomPaine.com
It's not just that some journalists today are on the government payroll. The rot in our corporate media goes deeper. Much deeper.
Posted on Mar 28, 2005, Source: MediaChannel.org
The U.S. press and right-wing blogs are ignoring – or in some cases denying – the serious discrepancies surrounding a deadly U.S. attack on an Italian convoy.
Posted on Mar 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
MediaChannel's Danny Schechter gives a personal account of appearing on the windtunnel known as
Hannity & Colmes to make some key points about the Eason Jordan comments.
Posted on Feb 10, 2005
Instead of exploring our cultural need for celebrity spectacle, the media will busy themselves worrying about future docu-dramas and possible sequels.
Posted on Feb 9, 2005, Source: MediaChannel.org
This year's re-inauguration promises the latest in crowd containment and control; but will the press be along for the ride?
Posted on Jan 18, 2005, Source: MediaChannel.org
With so much rhetoric devoted to voting rights and media mis-coverage of elections, why aren't progressive groups helping to build an alternative media that offers a corrective?
Posted on Jan 11, 2005, Source: MediaChannel.org
U.S. war strategy in Iraq has been run like a political campaign with key message points and "message of the day" perception management techniques underlying a strategy of "information dominance."
Posted on Nov 11, 2004, Source: MediaChannel.org
In an age of scandal and crisis, the media outlets themselves have become a target for popular outrage.
Posted on Oct 7, 2004, Source: MediaChannel.org
While rightwingers may be breaking out the champagne to celebrate the humiliation of their favorite punching bag, reports of the demise of Dan Rather's career are greatly exaggerated.
Posted on Sep 22, 2004, Source: MediaChannel.org
The reporters may not be 'embedded' any more, but their coverage of the election campaign is no less deferential to the White House than during the Iraq war.
Posted on Sep 9, 2004, Source: MediaChannel.org
Despite the recent spate of mea culpas, most media outlets still largely support the war including the Bush administration's rationalization for it.
Posted on Aug 18, 2004, Source: MediaChannel.org
A year ago, nearly three million Americans wrote letters to members of Congress protesting media consolidation. So why are we cracking down instead on indecency?
Posted on Jun 2, 2004, Source: MediaChannel.org
The wall-to-wall coverage of the escalating violence in Iraq reproduces White House narrative in the place of independent analysis.
Posted on Apr 8, 2004, Source: MediaChannel.org
The media are more eager to air accusations of partisanship and create 'heat' for ratings than shed light on the real intelligence failures that led to 9/11.
Posted on Mar 29, 2004, Source: MediaChannel.org
Our primary goal in the new year should be to harness widespread grassroots anger at Big Media to effect meaningful change.
Posted on Jan 6, 2004, Source: MediaChannel.org
Thanks to Roger Ailes generous heart, many former criminals have revived their fortunes on Fox. So why not Saddam?
Posted on Dec 26, 2003, Source: MediaChannel.org
Why has the mainstream media paid so little attention to the ongoing investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks?
Posted on Nov 25, 2003, Source: AlterNet
In order to succeed, media reformers must reach out to conservatives rather than mobilize the usual liberal constituencies.
Posted on Nov 6, 2003, Source: MediaChannel.org
In response to rising mainstream media criticism, the White House strategy has shifted from seducing reporters to bypassing them.
Posted on Oct 29, 2003, Source: MediaChannel.org
Lionel Chetwynd's new movie deifying George Bush as the nation's savior on Sept. 11 is less interesting than the incestuous marriage of media and politics that led to its creation.
Posted on Sep 8, 2003, Source: MediaChannel.org
When historians began to construct the real story of the war on Iraq, it is safe to predict that they will indict the American media along with the Bush administration.
Posted on May 30, 2003, Source: MediaChannel.org
The reason why the media did such a poor job of covering the Iraq war may have less to do with bias or ineptitude than the upcoming FCC decision on media ownership.
Posted on May 1, 2003, Source: MediaChannel.org
The U.S. media is too busy congratulating itself on a job well done to reassess its role in promoting the Pentagon's agenda.
Posted on Apr 22, 2003, Source: Globalvision News Network
A recent open letter signed by leading media luminaries is a searing indictment of the mainstream press' war coverage.
Posted on Mar 6, 2003, Source: Globalvision News Network
If antiwar activists continue to be pushed into the back pages of newspapers, they risk losing the war for public opinion.
Posted on Jan 22, 2003, Source: Globalvision News Network
PBS refused to air a new documentary exposing the betrayal of voters and American democracy in the 2000 elections in Florida. The filmmaker tells you why.
Posted on Oct 14, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Competitive wars between media companies are heating up, but it's the wars within -- drops in morale and stock prices -- sending media moguls into retreat.
Posted on May 3, 2002, Source: MediaChannel.org
We are watching the deadly game of tit for tat slowly ratcheting up the crisis in the Middle East. It has become, in network parlance, breaking news, with images that are sickeningly familiar to us all.
Posted on Apr 5, 2002, Source: MediaChannel.org
The new military thriller Black Hawk Down shows what the TV news of the current war has not: actual combat, and the feelings of those engaged in it. But much of the story is false.
Posted on Jan 8, 2002, Source: MediaChannel.org
When journalists from different regions met to debate news versus propaganda at the U.N., they realized human rights and responsibilities go together.
Posted on Dec 17, 2001, Source: MediaChannel.org
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman blasted TV coverage of economic issues for ignoring "the whole picture," a reminder of what U.S. business reporting often overlooks.
Posted on Nov 29, 2001, Source: MediaChannel.org
Musicians have been mobilizing to raise funds and awareness in the aftermath of September 11, showing how popular music often has a power that journalism doesn't.
Posted on Oct 10, 2001, Source: MediaChannel.org
Media companies will cover the War on Terrorism even as they're lobbying the Bush FCC for rules that will allow them to consolidate more power and make more money.
Posted on Oct 1, 2001, Source: MediaChannel.org
Most Americans spent September 11 glued to their television sets, trying to understand. But amid the grim footage and "expert" interviews, many of the most pressing questions were never addressed.
Posted on Sep 12, 2001, Source: MediaChannel.org
A freelance writer is in jail for refusing to turn over her records to the FBI, which claims she's not a real journalist.
Posted on Sep 5, 2001, Source: MediaChannel.org
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