Danny Schechter

Danny Schechter is a veteran reporter and film-maker. A US citizen, reported on the 1968 student protests from London and Paris. He blogs at Newsdissector.com blog and writes for AlJazeera and other websites. He made the film Plunder on Wall Street’s, The Crime of Our Time. Comments to dissector@mediachannel.org

Occupy Wall Street is All Over The Media: But for How Long?

The important role of the media in making or breaking political movements has not been changed that much by the Facebookisation of news. But the protesters don't see it, because their news habits have been socialised

By Danny Schechter

/ 28 Nov 2011

The movement moves on: what happens after Zuccotti Park

From Manhattan, what happened in the aftermath of the New York Mayor's action to clear the Occupy Wall Street protest, and what needs to happen next

By Danny Schechter

/ 16 Nov 2011

The threat of better journalism? Responding to David Loyn

How ironic to read BBC correspondent David Loyns paean to the good old religion of objectivity in journalism on this dark day when the New York Times, paragon of

By Danny Schechter

/ 14 May 2003

Before the deluge

It was September 23, in another era. Battery Park City was a pit of sand then, not from towers falling as it is today, but because that corner of Lower

By Danny Schechter

/ 31 Oct 2001