Welcome to a new month, February 2010. Will it be our last month online? It’s your call. Thanks to everyone who has written and sent donations in response to our appeal which we will leave up on the site.. We are following up on your suggestions to the degree we can. If you want us [...]
Times Online (UK)Goldman Goniffs Goldman Sachs, the world’s richest investment bank, could be about to pay its chief executive a bumper bonus of up to $100 million in defiance of moves by President Obama to take action against such payouts. Bankers in Davos for the World Economic Forum (WEF) told The Times yesterday they understood [...]
Today is February 1. On this day, in the year of our Lord 2000, we inaugurated Mediachannel.org at a launch party in Manhattan. Prominent journalists came out to discuss the media crisis we saw ourselves responding to. The late news anchor, Walter Cronkite, who had agreed to serve as an advisor couldn’t make it but [...]
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Danny Schechter "The News Dissector" has been offering a counter narrative
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rants and books. His latest book is PLUNDER
and he is now making a film on the economic crisis that the book explores
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His latest film is Plunder: The Crime of Our Time
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The "News Dissector" explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed.
Written by veteran media critic and Emmy winner Rory O'Connor, Shock Jocks features unsparing profiles of the ten worst conservative radio talkers in America, including Michael Savage, Bill O' Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus and the rest.
