Danny Schechter

"When News Lies is an inside story of the media war behind the Iraq War, the American government's efforts to manipulate war coverage by playing on the media's own timidity and reluctance to do its job- report the news to the public. Veteran author, video journalist, and media critic Danny Schechter ("the News Dissector") takes us on a sometimes frightening, sometimes humorous journey behind the scenes of the media machine that sold us an invasion and rallied the public to support it." "This innovative and timely book includes the script and full length DVD of Schechter's award-winning and controversial documentary, "WMD" (Weapons of Mass Deception). Book jacket."--Jacket.

Provides a critique and assessment of the media after 9/11. Includes web log entries, columns, and articles by correspondents and alternative journalists analyzing the events of 9/11 and the media's coverage of the U. S. government's war on terrorism. Stresses the lack of international coverage of the American media, examines the media distortion, oversimplification, and government propaganda as major roadblocks in accurate coverage of terrorism and war, and provides a thorough analysis of the news media and how 9/11 affected the content of broadcast and print news sources. Concludes that there is a lack of a truly free and independent press in America owing to government and corporate control.

From the introduction: "This media war promoted the war it covered...First, it constructed the political environment, contributing to the sense of inevitability about the need for war, and then fostered approval for it. Critical voices quickly vanished as fighting got underway...Our understanding of what happened, our perceptions, points of view, and prejudices, were forged and framed by our media choices."

"News Dissector brings together Danny Schechter's writings on human rights, politics, and the media over a span of four decades of activism and reporting: this includes his experiences with radio news, public-affairs television programming, production of independent documentaries, and the launching of the Media Channel, a global media watchdog website. These pieces provide a fascinating look at the trajectory of what was once simply called "The Movement." Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Tom Hayden, and other figures from the counterculture and new left come alive in these pages. Schechter's run-ins with the FBI and the CIA provide fascinating and often entertaining reading. A large section covers Vietnam during and after the war. Throughout, Schechter exposes the practices and prejudices of the news media and proposes detailed corrective action. The collection also includes essays of a more personal and sometimes emotional nature - the observations, impressions, and inspirations of an insurgent journalist. News Dissector is an enlightening book by one of the few journalists to emerge from the alternative media of the '60s and '70s with his politics and principles intact."--BOOK JACKET.

The More You Watch, The Less You Know is one journalist's testimony on the demise - and possible resurgence - of truth-telling in our time. Weaving autobiographical experiences with media analysis, Schechter names names and points his finger at key players in the megamedia corporations that rule the airwaves. He offers an insider's tale of how the media really works and why it doesn't work the way it should breaking what media historian Robert W. McChesney in his foreword calls "the implicit code of silence that compels journalists to look the other way ....". The More You Watch, The Less You Know recounts Schechter's media adventures, from when he was "Danny Schechter the News Dissector" on Boston's WBCN radio, to his personal odyssey chronicling the anti-Apartheid revolution in South Africa, to his development of innovative programming as an independent producer. In this age of telecommunications bills and media mergers. The More You Watch, The Less You Know is an insider's passionate plea for freedom of the electronic press and media reform.

"Journalist Danny Schechter investigates a complex web of fraud and crime that he shows played a major, if largely unreported, role in bringing the economy down. His four-year investigation focuses on three interconnected cesspools of corruption."--Publisher's description.

The worlds of Weapon X and the Totally Awesome Hulk collide - and the results will be explosive! The mutant-hunting Weapon X Program and its new director are out to end Homo superior once and for all with their army of cyborg killers - and they've put a target on the back of Amadeus Cho as well! To save his gamma-infused hide, the Hulk must ally with Old Man Logan, Sabretooth and more - but, in the company of killers, what will he become? Find out in an incendiary epic that could only be called Weapons of Mutant Destruction! COLLECTING: WEAPON X 5-6, WEAPONS OF MUTANT DESTRUCTION, TOTALLY AWESOME HULK 20-22.

Draws from conversations with family members, former presidents and cabinet ministers, adversaries, and Mandela's Robben Island cellmates and guards to offer new insights into the life of the freedom fighter.

In Blogothon Schechter demonstrates the importance of blogging as an alternative media in an age when mainstream media has come under increasing scrutiny for a lack of credibility, real news and social value. This compilation of Schechter's blog posts describes the financial crisis developed during the first decade of the 21st century, the influence of activists such as Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson on Occupy Wall Street, the ascent of Al Jazeera, the expulsion of Helen Thomas and Keith Olbermann from mainstream media, and increased partisanship and polarization in U.S. politics.

A documentary examining the increasing debt burden carried by millions of Americans. Indicates that corrupt practices by financial and government institutions are fostering citizens' dependence on credit while creating a ballooning national debt that is leading the country towards fiscal disaster.