Danny Schechter

The World Cup packs up and leaves behind a Brazil suffering financial losses and intensified social conflicts, while ...

I feel like an Iraq war veteran not because I served in that still ongoing war. No one ...

How can you be in the past and present at the same time? Go to your college reunion. ...

Every month, rise or shine, the Federal Reserve Bank, an institution that most Americans believe is a branch ...

This is probably the worst time to release a book about my involvement in the long struggle to ...

The word “oligarchy” has finally come home. For years, it was a term used only in connection with ...

First the good news: The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service was not only the best-covered of its awards ...

With Nelson Mandela’s death, news from South Africa seemed to have died along with the world’s most famous ...

Everyone’s talking about the Supreme Court’s perfectly predictable “Citizens United 2” McCutcheon decision. It’s what we are NOT ...

OK, I have to admit it, I feel as my faith in economic justice is being tested by ...

The term “spring offensive” may be out of favor in the media, but more than 50 organizations endorsed ...

The Winter Olympics are off and running, and the media focus is about the threat of terrorism, Putin’s ...

Pete Seeger, my American idol, was a great singer, songsmith, troubadour, and progressive voice. His life was celebrated ...

At year’s end, the news agenda fills up with stories on top stories, a chance for networks to ...

As the body of Nelson Mandela was heading for its final rest in the rural community where he ...

Just days before he died Nelson Mandela’s daughter Makaziwe Mandela told SABC, that her father (from his first ...

It has been said that this is the year of the black film. Three have stood out as ...

I was among the many media wannabe reformers to attend the 10th anniversary party of Free Press (freepress.net), ...

Facebook struck what it thought was a blow for freedom of expression: it is now going to allow ...

What is the Tea Party and where did it come from? Was it a grass-roots movement nurtured in ...

A real economic recovery and more job creation is very unlikely. In fact, all the war talk and ...

If I were an ailing Nelson Mandela, and, at all conscious of the storms surrounding me, I might ...

New York—It’s hard for me to feel sorry about the travails of PBS NewsHour where bland has been ...

The clock is ticking for Nelson Mandela’s life. The latest news is not good. His condition is now ...

NEW YORK—The annual Left Forum here is holding a panel that touches on ethics and I was asked ...

The news dissector found a refreshingly open debate about media in an unlikely spot—the somewhat closed society of ...

Thomas Wolfe wrote “You Can’t Go Home Again” years ago, and its core truth keeps popping up in ...