News Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics, 1960-2000

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Schechter's writing on politics, human rights and the media spanning four decades of activism and reporting: from Vietnam and South Africa to the American Civil rights movement and the hazards of the global corporate media. An important book by one of the few working journalists to emerge from the alternative media of the 60s and 70s with his politics and principals intact.

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"As News Dissector on Boston Radio, Schechter literally educated a generation..." -- NOAM CHOMSKY "...a kind of journalist without borders, who has shaken up public broadcasting, and many other media institutions in the course of his career." - The Nation

Author Bio

Danny Schechter is executive producer of Globalvision, a television and film production company, and executive editor of Mediachannel.org, a global media watchdog website. His writing on current events and media issues have appeared in The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Village Voice, The Nation, and many other publications. His previous books include Falun Gong's Challenge to China and The More You Watch, The Less You Know.