Danny Schechter
Organization:
MediaChannel
Position:
Founder and Executive Editor
Areas of Expertise:
Influences of U.S. media, dumbing-down of citizenry by U.S. media; how media covers war, potential for threat against freedom of press in war time; media coverage of the Iraq War,US and Iraqi casualties; media tactics of Bush administration; embedded journalists
Personal Website:
Notable Publications/Publishers:
Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal (9/08); Media Wars: News in a Time of Terror (2003); Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception, How the Media Failed to Cover the War on Iraq (2003); News Dissector: Passions, Pieces, and Polemics (2001); The More You Watch, The Less You Know (1998)
| Danny Schechter (NY): Author, Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal (2008); Executive Editor/Blogger-in-Chief, MediaChannel.org; Co-Founder/Executive Producer, Globalvision; television producer, independent filmmaker, former CNN and ABC News producer; decades of wealth transfers to the rich, the economy in recession, the result of multiple imploding bubbles, over one million foreclosures since summer of 2007 |
