Danny Schechter (1942-2015)
Today, we lost a journalist’s journalist, the moral commander of investigative reporters from New York to Johannesburg
Today, we lost a journalist’s journalist, the moral commander of investigative reporters from New York to Johannesburg
I can’t take it anymore. All week, I’ve watched Nelson Mandela reduced to a Barbie doll
Documentary filmmaker Danny Schechter, a former network news producer, doesn’t believe the media have a liberal bias. Instead, he sees a bias “against understanding” in the race for ratings and profits.
The New York Times has uncovered Katherine Harris’ wipe out of thousands of voters … only three years after killing the story exposed by the BBC TV and the Guardian. Here, ‘News Dissector’ Schechter, formerly of ABC’s 20/20, asks how The Times could editorialize on a story they never ran in the first place. And note the Times still can’t bring itself to say that the color of illegally purged voters is … Black.