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MediaChannel founder and executive editor, Danny Schechter the "News Dissector" is also a founder and Vice President/Executive Producer of Globalvision, Inc., an award-winning media company formed in 1987.

Mr. Schechter has been a broadcast and print journalist and is an internationally recognized speaker and writer on media issues. His work has been honored with Emmy awards, the IRIS award, the George Polk Award, the Major Armstrong Award, and honors from the National Association of Black Journalists. Mr. Schechter was the news director and principal newscaster for WBCN-FM, an on-air reporter for WGBH, and a news program producer and investigative reporter at CNN and ABC. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is "Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception" (Prometheus).

B.A. in Labor History, Cornell University, 1964; MA in Political Sociology London School of Economics, l968, Harvard University Nieman Fellowship in Journalism, 1978; Honorary Ph.D. Fitchberg College, l991

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DateTitle
02/07/2012 07:00:09Past as Prologue, Future in the Rear View Mirror
02/03/2012 16:21:06A Bigger Enemy than the Pentagon: Iran and How Hollywood Spreads Propaganda
01/28/2012 15:47:36Property Rights and Human Rights At War in America
01/19/2012 17:32:58Foreclosing on Capitalism's House of Lies
01/14/2012 14:04:52Hang the Ratings Agencies!
01/10/2012 15:01:35The Lexicon of Occupation
01/04/2012 16:39:47Election 2012: A Game of Fools Played by Fools So the Rest of Us Stay Fooled
12/28/2011 14:52:22ONY: Occupy New Year
12/24/2011 16:14:14Havel & Kim: Two Misunderstood Passings
12/18/2011 09:52:20Times Square: “Why I Occupy”
12/13/2011 16:15:35Before the Collapse in the Kingdom of the Blind
12/09/2011 16:48:12The Old Hopium: Is Obama Changing?
12/05/2011 20:47:26Meanwhile...Back on Wall Street
11/28/2011 20:12:36Occupy this Space: All Over the Media, But for How Long?
11/24/2011 17:11:59Gray Friday: Shoppingless in America
11/20/2011 17:28:42Book Burning in New York City: Poetry Survives Bloomberg's Night of Fire at the People's Library
11/15/2011 16:05:36NYC: The Movement Moves On
11/07/2011 19:11:32What Will Happen To Occupy Wall Street If It Loses Its Park?
10/25/2011 19:28:45Why "The Media" is Missing the Movement
10/09/2011 12:10:54Wall Street Occupation "Mobs" No Friend of Obama
10/03/2011 13:56:45The Occupy Wall St. Counter-Revolutionaries Attack
10/01/2011 12:42:13Unions Promise Support of Wall Street Occupation
09/25/2011 13:45:36A Saturday Afternoon at the Wall St. Revolt
09/23/2011 06:09:26American Know Who: A Journo in Istanbul
09/18/2011 15:33:45Breaking Up an Alliance: Israel and Turkey Friends No More
09/11/2011 19:48:499/11 Counter-Narrative
09/02/2011 15:57:00Obama on Labor: Songs of the Economic Apocalypse
08/30/2011 20:07:49Past Can Do: Barack’s Betrayals Offer Lessons We Can’t Deny
08/21/2011 12:30:58The Media Money Buys: Networks Out To Sell, Not Tell
07/29/2011 22:18:10High Theatre, Low Comedy: Kabuki Play On Capitol Hill
07/25/2011 13:49:34Behind Blue Eyes: White Terror
07/22/2011 05:50:50Tora Tora Tora Time: Debt Ceiling War Goes Kamikaze
07/11/2011 18:11:40South Africa's Cancer of Corruption and 'Culture of Concealment'
06/02/2011 13:31:57We Celebrate Unity Domestically While We Promote Division Globally
05/24/2011 15:07:07Why Are We Banking on Banks to Promote Economic Recovery?
05/14/2011 15:16:28Partisanship Through Polarization
05/11/2011 17:50:23Timing is Everything: Pulling the Trigger on bin Laden
05/05/2011 15:33:32The Death of America's Fact-Based Society
04/09/2011 12:23:49Shutdown: Last Minute Deal Only Postpones More Serious Economic Warfare
03/25/2011 13:29:25World as a Theater of the Absurd
03/20/2011 11:31:26Living in Nuclear Denial
03/15/2011 19:05:23Winds of Change in the Arab World: Has the Future Arrived?
02/20/2011 15:56:36Madoff Ponzi Schemes: What Do We Want to Know?
02/13/2011 13:43:55Can the Egyptian People Sustain Their Change Momentum?
01/31/2011 05:46:38The Money Behind the Egyptian Insurrection
01/27/2011 16:19:04Getting Away with It: Laughing All the Way to the Bank
01/18/2011 15:32:48When Chinese Has You for Dinner: Dim Summit Prospects for US/China
01/06/2011 14:51:19How the Year that Was Crumbled
12/29/2010 09:58:25Taking Helen Out: The Media Hit Job on Helen Thomas
12/20/2010 10:13:43Wikileaks and the Deceivers
11/28/2010 12:52:55Reflections on a Visit to the Former Embattled US Embassy in Tehran
11/10/2010 14:02:47Campaign to Jail the Banksters
10/24/2010 11:12:39A Mine Too Deep: Who Will Dig Out Buried Americans?
10/07/2010 16:37:42Crisis Haunts Obama
10/03/2010 14:25:12Marching on Washington
09/27/2010 09:57:24Sometimes Money Does Sleep: Stone Missing Mark with Wall Street Sequel
09/14/2010 13:24:52From the City of London: War and Economy
08/29/2010 18:16:39Who Owns "Your" Media?
08/17/2010 16:27:02What has Really Been Settled in the Conflict with the Banksters?
08/13/2010 06:03:14Not Recovering
08/08/2010 15:19:47As the System Fails, Obama Economic Team Bails
07/22/2010 15:02:42Obama Signing Financial Reform Is Signing Up for a New Struggle
07/18/2010 16:21:12Who's Winning the War on Wall Street?
07/13/2010 18:28:11Fixing Our Many Deeper Crises
07/09/2010 09:40:24Two Tier Justice
07/06/2010 06:02:01Smiley Faces Won’t Save Us
06/26/2010 10:19:56Will We Be Spared Another Crash, Will Wall Street Banksters Go to Jail?
06/20/2010 14:42:59Fixing the Financial Fix
05/23/2010 16:27:16Financial Reform Busted
05/14/2010 15:11:58Can We Challenge The Crimes Of Our Time?
05/07/2010 05:56:40Greek Tragedy: Naked Capitalism
05/06/2010 05:55:02Greece in Flame, Goldman Sachs' Gasoline Smell, and Fireworks in Times Square
04/25/2010 14:24:17Obama Has Spoken, the System is Broken
04/12/2010 06:11:23Katyn The Forest of Death
04/04/2010 10:21:21 Keeping the King Dream Alive
04/01/2010 18:44:45The "F-F" Word
03/29/2010 18:55:26How a Teen Summit and a Broadway Show Showcase Who the Real Changemakers Are
03/12/2010 17:01:59Aftershock: Second Wave of Foreclosures Coming
03/02/2010 07:00:22Kucinich Fighting On
02/19/2010 16:14:27Dropping Like Flies: Dead Democracy Walking
02/05/2010 16:34:40Fade to White: Americans Become the Story in Haiti
01/31/2010 14:24:54As Media Coverage Fades, Urgent Issues On The Disaster Go Uncovered
01/27/2010 06:42:53The State of The State Of The Union: Our “Leaked” Speech?
01/19/2010 16:44:36Investigating the Haiti Aid Disaster Now
01/03/2010 18:45:05Banks Rule; and The Money Ain't Comin' Back
11/13/2009 17:16:57Ambassador at Odds with Obama Administration over Afghanistan
11/06/2009 16:42:07Downrising: The Rich Feeding on the Poor
11/02/2009 09:35:05Returning Home: The World We Ignore, The Election That Can’t Be, The Partisan Wars We Love
10/17/2009 08:48:36Busting the Banksters
10/11/2009 15:30:29Mad Media Bedfellows: Amy Goodman Paid by CIA to Cover-up 9/11 Truth?
10/10/2009 11:43:09Nobel Surprise: Will It Encourage Him To Become More “Transformational” Or Not?
10/07/2009 17:18:41The Press Is Still Missing The Story Of Fraud and Economic Decline Ahead
09/29/2009 15:38:40Michael and Me (on Russian TV)
09/22/2009 20:04:15Big Guns in Steel Town: G20 Confab
09/19/2009 09:33:20Declaring Independence from Government Tyranny
09/14/2009 05:56:56Obama Trying To Rally Support For Reform Package As Right Marches
09/09/2009 21:54:50Whose Economy Pulled Back from the Brink?
08/26/2009 15:52:45Pesky Justice Demands Transparency from Federal Reserve
08/24/2009 06:04:25Where's the Justice?
08/11/2009 15:52:40Overthrow! Obama and the Reemergence of the Right
08/05/2009 16:06:00Fooled Again: Just Another Cog in the Machine
07/27/2009 05:53:56Wall Street's Problem and Ours
07/21/2009 19:26:25Idle Worship in an Era of Iconomania
05/15/2009 15:26:01Confessions of a Twittering Newbie
05/06/2009 18:02:20How Wall Street Is Fighting Back And Winning
04/26/2009 12:27:02After 100 Days of Obama: Where's the Change?
04/17/2009 09:29:08A People's President? New Film Uncovers the Story Behind Obama Election
04/03/2009 15:48:03Nadir to Summit: What Came Out of London Economic Confab?
03/27/2009 16:28:10Off Da Hook: Obama and White Collar Crime
03/20/2009 15:12:50Pitchforks and Protests: The Fury Down Below
03/15/2009 09:42:10How the Permanent Power Structure Is Trying to Stop Obama
03/12/2009 05:18:51Bernard Madoff Circus Goes Public Today
03/08/2009 20:52:44How The Financial Crisis Breeds Global Chaos?
03/01/2009 20:38:53My Kingdom for a Parachute
02/22/2009 16:33:43Is It JAILOUT Time Yet?
02/15/2009 15:09:31Learning from Lincoln (for Dummies)
02/07/2009 18:55:23Old Politics Undercuts the New
01/27/2009 20:30:19IN THE WEEK OF THE ECONOMIC CIRCUS: WHICH WAY RECOVERY?
01/21/2009 20:24:28Beyond the Honeymoon
01/14/2009 17:29:50What is the KING-OBAMA Lineage?
01/08/2009 21:44:53Waiting for Barack
01/01/2009 22:34:56Superficial Mainstream Media Reporting At a Time of Deep Crisis
12/28/2008 17:28:45The Week Before the Year That’s Coming
12/23/2008 06:13:48How a Program To Save The Economy Ended Up Enriching Big Banks
12/07/2008 14:14:24Trumping the Market: God Responsible for Meltdown
11/30/2008 17:13:22Friedman's Sermon from the Mount
11/25/2008 19:01:11The Great Depression Bummer
11/19/2008 16:28:41Daily News Dissected
11/06/2008 19:21:42A Chorus of Joy, A Feeling of Disbelief
10/08/2008 21:47:54As Economic War Threatens, It's Time to Fight Back
10/03/2008 10:58:49House Re-votes on Bailout, New Concerns Raised
10/02/2008 13:15:25A Bailout to Bail Out the Bailout?
09/26/2008 18:38:31Are We On The Verge of the Deluge?
05/06/2008 19:14:28Grabbing Wall St. Crime by the Horns
04/25/2008 21:20:43Looking At US from "Out There"
04/24/2008 18:39:36Why Making Media The Issue Is Crucial For Saving Democracy
03/21/2008 09:57:34Sub-Prime Shock as Rich Lose Asset Value
02/20/2008 18:09:58Fidel Steps Out, Corpse Media Tees Off
02/15/2008 19:01:37Back to the Balkans: Kosovo Crisis II
01/24/2008 19:54:18Lies and War and Lies and Words and Lies
01/02/2008 19:05:50Channeling Mao: Big Media Following the Leader
12/10/2007 00:12:52Jesse Jackson In Chicago: Preparing the March On Wall Street
11/26/2007 12:01:47End of the World Shopocalypse
08/27/2007 08:09:09Why did the Markets and the Media Downplay the Subprime Menace?
08/10/2007 20:05:42Subprime or Subcrime?
07/29/2007 14:46:29Free the Financial Press!
07/16/2007 23:09:50The Madness Continues
07/09/2007 23:36:19Getting Out of the Situation
06/22/2007 00:24:57Transcendental Union
06/09/2007 10:45:58Al Jazeera: Getting Foxy with the News?
05/03/2007 11:54:40Free the Press
04/08/2007 23:18:16Narrative and Counter Narrative
04/02/2007 14:54:11Unfunnying the News
03/25/2007 22:29:42News Dissector: Iran War? NYC Police Spying, American Mortgage Meltdown
02/16/2007 14:47:32Weekend Warriors: Senate "Debates" Iraq Saturday
02/05/2007 05:20:12Operation Co-Optation: Bush and the Dems - The Wars and US Reporting on the Documentary Conference
01/30/2007 02:25:18The Anti War March Meets The Media
01/03/2007 15:10:57For the New Year: MediaChannel Honors The “We” That Care
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