Danny Schechter (1942-2015)
Today, we lost a journalist’s journalist, the moral commander of investigative reporters from New York to Johannesburg
Danny Schechter
The Mandela Barbie
I can’t take it anymore. All week, I’ve watched Nelson Mandela reduced to a Barbie doll
The other documentary about Iraq war: 'WMD'
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.
New York Times Reports Illegal Vote Purge
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.
