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Thursday, November 19, 2009
GET HIP: DISCOVER THE DANGERS OF A DOUBLE DIP
WHY WE SHOUD FEAR A "DOUB:E DIP" IN THE REDCESSION. NEWS DISSECTOR DANNY SCHECHTER PICKS UP WHERE THE PRESIDENT LEFT OFF

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
TIME TO RALLY FOR FINANCIAL REFORM BEFORE THE RIGHT DOES
(3 comments) There is a fear that unless progressive embrace the fading cause of financial reform, the right will seize the issue warns News Dissector Danny Schechter and other.

Saturday, October 17, 2009
AS THE BIG BANKS POST RECORD PROFITS AND PAY OUT OBSCENE BONUSES, WHAT SHOULD WE THE PEOPLE DO: STAND UP OR ROLL OVER?
(19 comments) Perhaps it is time to revisit the strategies of 1960's civil rights activists to deal with the Banksters. "Nothing will change without making them uncomfortable. Anger, if not ‘deployed” like an unguided missle, has its uses. The Banksters are terrified of what they call “economic populism.” I prefer to call it economic democracy. Even Obama understood that years ago when he worked as a community organizer."

Wednesday, October 14, 2009
A PRAISE POEM TO GOLDMAN SACHS' BILLION DOLLARBONUS BABIE$
(1 comments) News Dissector Danny Schechter pens a praise poem to Goldman Sachs On the Eve Of Its Billion Dollar Bonus Payouts.

Saturday, October 10, 2009
NOBEL THIS: WILL PRIZE PROD OBAMA IN A PROGRESSIVE DIRECTION?
(1 comments) What will the Nobel Prize Mean for Obama's Future? Should He have Taken it Or Not. News Dissector Danny Schechter weighs in.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
MEDIA FAILURE COMPOUNDS THE FINANCIAL FAULURE
(1 comments) Media coverage is compounding the financial crisis argues News Dissector Danny Schechter, author of a new book and film "THE CRIME OF OUR TIME) on the financial crisis as a crime story.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
RUSSIAN TV, AND MICHAEL MOORE--OH THE IRONIES
(1 comments) Ironies and contradictions emerge as Russian TV wonders why Capitalist companies fund Michael Moore's film against Capitalism

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
WELCOME TO PITTSBURGH: WHAT CAN THE G20 REALLY DO?
(1 comments) The G20 is assembling in Pittsburgh this week. What should be expect to come out if it. Could it become another Seattle asks News Dissector Danny Schechter.

Monday, September 14, 2009
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY FINANCIAL CRISIS: Not Over Yet!
(1 comments) In an article for Al Jazeera, News Dissector Danny Schechter marks the anniversary of the global financial crisis. The conclusion: It Ain't Over YET!

Friday, September 11, 2009
Obama's Speech Raises Issue He Doesn't Really Address
Barack Oama's Health Care Reform Speech started with claims about economic recovery? Were they Valid? What's being left out? Can we have a "jobless recovery?" News Dissector Danny Schechter, author of the forthcoming CRIME OF OUR TIME discusses.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Tony Soprano To The Rescue: Recruited to Help Admin Fight Mob
The FBI is warning that organized crime is moving in on the stimulus and recovery money. Whats the best repsonse? News Dissector Danny Schechter suggests using criminals to catch criminals by recruiting Tony Soprano. This "Secret Surveillance" tape suggests such a maneuver may be underway.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Facts, and Understanding, are Often in Conflict
(1 comments) Many people seem to have a desire NOT To know, and prefer myths to facts. Danny Schechter examines the need for more information that promotes understanding

Thursday, August 20, 2009
SEARCHING FOR OUR ECONOMIC DEPRESSION""AND FINDING IT!
The Depression is Here but sometimes you have to look for it argues News Dissector Danny Schechter.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
COG OR COA: WHY IS OBAMA MORPHING INTO BUSH 2?
(19 comments) There seems to be evidence of continuity between some Bush Policies and Some of Obamas. Why? News Dissector Danny Schechter discusses the the reasons the new initiatives are often blunted

Friday, July 31, 2009
AS OBAMA'S SUPPORT ERODES,THE RIGHT IS RESURGENT
(12 comments) The fall of of public support for Obama's initiatiatives is being accomplished by a resurgent right and a complicit media argues Danny Schechter who has some thoughts on how to fight back

Monday, July 27, 2009
When Wall Street Is The Problem, Is Bernanke The Answer?
All the media focused on President Obma's Comments on the Cambridge Police, ignoring his charge that Wall Street KNOWINGLY made bad loans. There was no follow-up on that either. This comment discusses the deepening economic cris and Ben Bernanke' bid to play savior. Written by Danny Schechter, author of PLUNDER: Investigating Our Economic Calamity

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
OUR ENDLESS ICONOMANIA: MICHAEL, WALTER AND NELSON
Americans love icons from American Idol to the the fascination with the good and great. dead and alive. Now its Walter Cronkite and Nelson Mandela's turn in the festival of hype that started with Michael Jackson's endless memorial. News Dissector Danny Schechter explores our need for heroes.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
WILL PROTECTIONISM PROTECT AMERICAN JOBS?
(9 comments) The Steelworkers are protesting against Chinese tire imports to try to save American jobs. A US Trade body agrees and is recommending tariffs be imposed. Is this smart--will it save jobs or cost them. Danny Schechter, author of PLUNDER: Investigating Our Economic Calamity writes about tires and political fires asking "Can Doing What Seems To Be The Right Things Turn Out To Be Wrong?

Thursday, July 9, 2009
Are Financial Markets Being Illegally Manipulated?
(1 comments) News DIssector Danny Schechter looks the question of whether financial markets are being manipulated in light of some eye-opening recent developments.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The Fog Of Robert McNamara
(3 comments) In the minds of a generation, it was that genius that convinced the country and his bosses, JFK and LBJ, that he/we could win the Vietnam War.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
DEPENDENCE GROWS AS INDEPENDENCE DAY NEARS
As America's Independence nears, our economic dependence grows in an interdependent world. Danny Schechter speaks about our growing debt load and our need to think about our relationship with the world in a new way.

Thursday, June 25, 2009
Madoff In The Dock: THE CRIME OF OUR TIME
Ponzi King Bernie Madaoff is to be sentenced next week. News Dissector Danny Schechter, author or Plunder assess his prospects and the prospects for the prosecution of other financial fraudsters.

Thursday, June 18, 2009
ARE OBAMA'S FINANCIAL PROPOSALS A ROAD TO REAL REFORM?
(3 comments) President Obama announced his new "rules of the road " for the financial sector. Do his reforms go far enough? News Dissector Danny Schechter, author or Plunder raises some questions missing in most media accounts.

Thursday, June 11, 2009
WHO CAN WE BANK ON AS THE CRISIS SHARPENS?
The Administration is giving mixed signals about financial reform. They say they are for it but have not delayed initiatives while allowing banks to pay back government monies with few obligations. news DIssector Danny Schechter, author of PLUNDR assesses the contradictions.

Monday, June 8, 2009
OBAMA ELECTRIFIES WORLD: SHOULD WE BELIEVE THE HYPE?
(8 comments) Barack Obama was cheered everywhere he went in France as the World continues to debate the ideas in his speech in Cairo. He has transcended politics and become a celebrity. Should we buy the hype? News Dissector Danny Schechter reflects on how he is regarded and how activists should respond/

Thursday, June 4, 2009
JUNE 4: STANDING UP TO TANKS AND FOR TRUTH
(2 comments) While there has been lots of coverage of the anniversary if Tiananman Square, on going reporting on human rights in china has diminished. Media Critic Danny Schechter offers an assessment

Thursday, May 28, 2009
Wall Street's Scams, Lies and Frauds
(1 comments) A quote:Our theoretical analysis shows that an economic underground can come to life if firms have an incentive to go broke for profit at society's expense (to loot) instead of to go for broke (to gamble on success). Bankruptcy for profit will occur if poor accounting, lax regulation or low penalties for abuse give owners an incentive to pay themselves more than their firms are worth and then default on their debt obligations

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Will All The Financial Reforms Lead to Change or Just Prop Up the Status Quo?
(1 comments) Its been said that crises like the one we are experiencing leads to change. But is that happening today. Is there a chance that after the financial crisis is over, we will go back to the Status Quo. Danny Schechter, author of PLUNDER explores what is and is not changing as a result of the financial meltdown.

Thursday, May 21, 2009
The Crimes of Wall Street: Investigate 'Control Frauds'
(1 comments) What were the crimes Wall Street should be tried for? This article by Danny Schechter, author or PLUNDER argues that "control frauds" are citical but have been largely overlooked.

Friday, May 15, 2009
Confessions of a Twitter Newbie: Old Guys And New Technology
Twiteris the latest in-technology with millions of users worldwide. I was skeptical, cynical and dismissive at first and then it kind of grows on you.

Thursday, May 7, 2009
American Expressions; A Time for Credit Card Reform
(3 comments) As the Senate prepares to vote on credit card reform, a look at how integral these cards are to our economy of speculation and debt. A look at the issues and the urgency of credit card reform.

Friday, May 1, 2009
Politicians Are In Office But Banks Are In Power:Time To Fight Back?
(9 comments) Its been a week when the Banks began to push back and use naked power to promote their agendas. Senator Dick Durbin says Banks run the Place." This essay projects a growing confrontation between the public and the "banksters"

Sunday, April 26, 2009
The First l00 Days: BARACK OBAMA'S STRESS TEST AND OURS
As banks Cope with stress tests, the public is stressed by the collapse of the economy and now the threat of a flu epidemic. What about Obama as the media marks his first l00 days. How should We Assess it.

Friday, April 17, 2009
How To Prod Obama: Use The Organizing Techniques He Used
(1 comments) Most progressives tend to believe that the best argument wins. Actually, it is the best organization. This is an article about a film I made investigating HOW Obama won --his use of grassroots organizing and the Internet. Its my hope that it will encourage the wider use of these techniques not just in elections, but to promote change.

Friday, April 10, 2009
The Battle with the Banks Is ON: Time To Speak Out
(5 comments) There are new signs of more banks failing and a new wave of bank bailouts. It's time for the public to get engaged with a new force for change.

Friday, April 3, 2009
AFTER THE G20 SUMMIT: WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED?
(2 comments) A look at the coverage and impact of the G20 Summit that ended this week in London

Friday, March 27, 2009
Needed: Blue Ribbon Panel To Investigate Financial Crimes
(20 comments) During the Depression, there was a PECORA Commission to investigate the crash of 1929. We need another commission today to probe the pervasive financial crimes behind the financial crisis

Sunday, March 8, 2009
The Financial Crisis Slams Into Europe/Goes Global
(3 comments) Danny Schechter reports from Europe on how The FInancial Crisis is beginning to wreak havoc. Some blame the US for exporting a form of "financial Aids."

Sunday, March 1, 2009
Calling Sully to the Rescue: How Bad Will It Get?
(1 comments) The latest statistics show that the recession is getting worse, and that the Obamacrats may have miscalculated on what they need to do. How bad is it? What don't we know? And Why>

Saturday, February 21, 2009
PBS Screws Up Report on Financial Crisis
Unfortunately, at a time when we need hard-hitting investigations into our financial catastrophe, we are getting warmed-over reprises that seem consistent with the larger media failure that has accompanied the financial failure.

Saturday, February 21, 2009
Is It Time For A Jailout On Wall Street?
AS many progressives mobilize to prosecute Bush and Cheney, few are going after Corporate Criminals and Wall Street Fraudsters. It is time for a Jailout not just a bailout. Aren't economic crimes as iimportant as political ones?

Sunday, February 15, 2009
Will Obama Follow Lincoln's Example?
(1 comments) Abraham Lincoln was cautious at first but as events changed, as the Civil War wore on, he became bolder. Will Barack Obama follow his example

Saturday, February 7, 2009
The Farts of Compromise: Hacking The Stimulus
(4 comments) An analysis of the Congressional Debate on the Stimulous and need for new politics. Discusses Obama's response and decision to leave town to rouse his base.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
THE OBAMATHON HAS BEGUN: How Long Will The Honeymoon Last?
(8 comments) Obama is now in office, but is he in power. How long will his honeymoon last?

Friday, January 16, 2009
What Is the KING-OBAMA lineage? Waiting for Barack, pt.3
(10 comments) Can the breach between Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama be healed

Monday, January 12, 2009
MEDIA TIME ON THE POTOMAC: WAITING FOR OBAMA Pt 2
As the inauguration grows close, how should Obama supporters think about what they will have to do make the changes they said they believe in

Friday, January 9, 2009
Inaugurate This: Waiting for Barack Obama
(8 comments) Barack Obama's grassroots campaign could become a major force in keeping him honest and pressing for the changes he has advocated. This piece includes information about a new film I am making on the Obama campaign

Sunday, November 23, 2008
All the Talk of a Depression Is, Um, Depressing
(1 comments) Economy still sinking As Obama Announces New Team and Plan

Friday, September 26, 2008
ARE WE ON THE VERGE OF THE DELUGE
(2 comments) New Questions as the Bailout Sparks A War

Saturday, September 20, 2008
Our Financial 9/11: Can They Save the System?
The Bush Adminsitartion's Rescue Plan Is Not Likely to Work

Sunday, August 31, 2008
IN THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE: AS ONE STORM THREATENS,ANOTHER IS OUT OF MEDIA SIGHT, OUT OF OUR MINDS
As we brace for what's been called the "mother of all storms," the platitude-pushing wonderland of TV has shifted the political debate overnight from the prospects of a man with a "funny name" to a gun toting former small town beauty queen turned Governor who hates polar bears and shoots moose. One catastrophe may be coming. The other may be already here, and a third, well, no one wants to talk about that.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Fire Bell in the Night and Our Real Terror
(2 comments) While We Debate Reverend Wright, The Economy Goes To Hell

Friday, December 28, 2007
The Day After: The World Reacts To The Murder of Benazir Bhutto
(1 comments) A day later, shock and fear still seem to rule in Pakistan in the aftermath of the killing of Benezir Bhutto. We do know, confirmed again today in the Washinhgton Post that the US government brokered her return. Were there any discussions of security arrangements? We don't know. Could this predictable killing have been prevented?

Monday, October 22, 2007
In The Age of the Superbugs: What Is The Remedy
killer germs, killer debt and economics-- not so different

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Fox Business; Can The Foxes Save the Hen House?
Fox's New Business News Channel Seeks To Rescue Corporate America

Monday, October 8, 2007
Can We Trust The New Jobs Report That Has Led to Rosy Forecasts?
(3 comments) There are questions about the credibility of the statistics on violence and conflicts coming out of Iraq, reported by Bush appointees. What's true of reporting from Iraq is also true about the job figures that the govt releases monthly gauging the health of the U.S. economy. Can they be trusted? And what about the reporting on them? This is a timely issue as Fox News gets ready to launch its heavily-hyped new Biz channel

Sunday, August 26, 2007
How Did We Miss the Signs of An Impending Crisis?
Why did the Markets and the Media Downplay the Subprime menace?

Friday, August 10, 2007
The Sub-Prime Crisis Is Really A "Sub-Crime" Crisis. It Is Time To Investigate and Prosecute This Scandal
Suddenly, after years of denial and inattention, the press has discovered what they call "the credit crisis." Vague words like "woes" are still being used to mask a financial calamity that some analysts are already calling an apocalypse, as lenders go under and the Stock Market melts downs. A French bank froze BILLIONS Thursday as the stock market tanked...

Saturday, June 2, 2007
Can Our Media Survive?
My media work has had it cycles almost like a business cycle. I was in radio at WBCN for 8 years, at ABC News for eight years, and so far with Media Channel for nearly 8 again. Are the media gods sending me a message?Is it time to hang up my scalpel?All of these stints are no small accomplishment considering how volatile the media world can be as well and how hostile it has become to our values.

Friday, May 25, 2007
Don't Be Surprised That Congress Capitulated On The War
Of course it is disappointing and disillusioning that the Congress passed the war financing bill giving the Decider in Chief another victory in his war with dissenting legislators who he knew, and we should have known, lack the votes and the guts to stop the war even with a protracted timeline"¦ Let me take that back, it is disillusioning only for those with illusions, for those who take poli-tricksters at their word...

Sunday, May 13, 2007
The Staple of Cable as Poster Child; O'Reilly as Father Coughlin Fascist Copycat
As Bill O'Reilly's pattern of hateful commentary goes unexamined within his own issue, few are asking why the cable industry which was launched with so much hope to offer more diversity has embodied so much of the worse on TV. In response to O'Reilly, CNN gave us not an alternative but a clone called Glenn Beck. And don't get me started on the many Neanderthals on MSNBC over the years.

Friday, May 4, 2007
Time for A Fox Hunt As Murdoch Targets The Wall Street Journal

Sunday, April 22, 2007
Reading Between the Lines to Find The Bottom Line
Thank you Harry Reid for acknowledging what the world press has been saying for more than a year, maybe longer: The war is lost.

Thursday, April 5, 2007
Memo To Our Media: How To Cover The Debt Crisis
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Friday, February 16, 2007
The Real Media Mantra: "Let's Make A Deal"
Deals, Deals, Deals. A culture of buying and selling dominates the world of information and even entertainment. Market logic long ago invaded and twisted media logic.

Sunday, January 28, 2007
Media Downplays Anti-War March Site
(4 comments)

Friday, January 5, 2007
Marching on Memphis: Revitalizing the Media Movement
(1 comments) It is the media that sets the agenda and limits it. It's the media that frames our issues, narrows our choices, deifies our icons and institutions, and pumps out the distractions that focus our attention and keeps us uninformed. If we are to revitalize our democracy, we need to make the media an issue and a target. We need to fight for a different type of news and a different story.

Monday, January 1, 2007
For the New Year: MediaChannel Honors The "We" That Care
Let us then honor those among us who do care, who are blogging writing op-eds, sending comments to editors and websites, digging out untold stories, making documentaries backing indymedia outlet and fighting back against the way show biz has infiltrated and nearly conquered news biz.

Monday, November 27, 2006
The 2006 Election: Another Nail in Democracy's Coffin?
Why are the mainstream media failing to cover the problems with the voting system in the US?

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
If You Are Against The War, Take This Quiz
The Iraq War is Bad Because:

Monday, September 4, 2006
911 Redux: Where is that decoder ring when we need it?
(1 comments) More than two towers collapsed on 911. Our democracy has fallen with them. In years past, in similar mysteries of history, it has taken more than 5 years for the truth to surface. In the weeks ahead, let us call for that part of the media that is least compromised to shed prior assumptions and safe conclusions and become open to investigating all the 9/11 narratives as some did finally about the phony claims of WMD's in Iraq.

Friday, August 18, 2006
Study Chess As A Guide to Watching Media
The hard-core partisan operatives take this game one nasty step further linking some negative in the news to the person or issue they want to demonize. The idea of ethical debate has long disappeared as show biz techniques dominates news biz.

Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Are the Words "Israel" and "Jews" Synonymous?
(1 comments)

Monday, July 17, 2006
Is It Time for a Third World War?
(2 comments) Has mainstream media devolved so far that world war is now considered a legitimate subject to advocate?

Saturday, July 1, 2006
An Idea for Media -- Cover the War Like a Math Class
Who will join me in building a War Clock to show the vast amounts of money being pissed away every second in Iraq? Wouldn't this be a feature that every TV newscast could update daily, just as they report on the movements of the stock market? All it would require is a simple graphic.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Dan Rather, R.I.P. Assasinated By The Media Company He Loved
(1 comments) For months he had wandered in the wilderness of CBS News headquarters with nothing to do, telling friends he knew more about what was on the menu at the cafeteria than he did about what the news organization he had once commanded was doing.

Friday, June 2, 2006
Media Crimes Sanitize War Crimes in Iraq
As events in Iraq continue to slip from bad to worse, the good news brigade is scrambling for new stories ("anything, give me anything") to shore up what's left of public support for a bloody war without end.

Sunday, May 7, 2006
The Media Shift from Them to Us
(1 comments) Mapping out the contours of the emerging media system is now on the agenda of consumers and creators in consciousness industries all over the world. Suddenly, many major media combines—perhaps still more outside America than in—have put aside their institutional arrogance and realized that their traditional approach is no longer selling.