This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week on GR: Danny Schechter the News Dissector is a long-time media interpreter, film maker, radio and internet pioneer, and author, whose book titles include: 'Plunder: the Crime of Our Time,' its companion, 'The Crime of Our Time: Why Wall Street is NOT Too Big to Jail,' 'Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception,' 'Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror,' and 'The More You Watch, the Less You Know.' His latest film release is, 'Plunder: The Movie.'

 

Listen. Hear.

 

And; David Eby, Executive Director of BC's Civil Liberties Association in the second half on 'The Mysterious Case of the Elusive RCMP Audit.'

 

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz from Victoria's streets and beyond. But first, Danny Schechter, dissecting the news from Tehran and back again.     

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca.  He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com.

 

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With the usual wars, and rumours of war losing media cachet, the situation on the Korean peninsula is being trumpeted as a more immediate threat to set Armageddon-weary hearts racing in terror anew. But before tearing off to the family bomb shelter, perhaps a closer look at the media and the way it presents the global reality to we who merely sit and wait is necessary.

 

Before the Korean Krisis there was Iran, prepared to, starting with Israel, immolate the world with its reputed "nuclear weapons" program. Tehran's progam, the story goes, poses such a grave danger to the international community many in the press prescribe a preemptive nuclear operation; a surgical strike that while killing millions would spare hundreds of millions a cancerous atomic metastasizing.

Danny Schechter the News Dissector is a long-time media interpreter, film maker, radio and internet pioneer, and author, whose book titles include: 'Plunder: the Crime of Our Time,' its companion, 'The Crime of Our Time: Why Wall Street is NOT Too Big to Jail,' 'Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception,' 'Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror,' and 'The More You Watch, the Less You Know.' His latest film release is, 'Plunder: The Movie.' Danny is freshly returned from a trip to one of the Axes of Evil, Iran; lucky to have escaped with his life.

Danny Schechter in the first half.

And; last week the British Columbia Civil Liberties Assocation discovered a provincial audit of the RCMP policing services it provides. As the deadline for renewal of the RCMP's 20 year contract is coming up for renewal, the BCCLA thought it a good idea to review that review. A good idea perhaps, but not thought so by everyone it seems.

David Eby, Executive Director of BC's Civil Liberties Association in the second half on 'The Mysterious Case of the Elusive RCMP Audit.'

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz from Victoria's streets and beyond. But first, Danny Schechter, dissecting the news from Tehran and back again.