Multiple Emmy Award winning investigative journalist, media critic, and author of the important and eye opening book Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, Danny Schechter pulls no punches as he describes how and why the unfolding global economic crisis and subprime scandal took place. He covers the roles of debt, regulation, the regulators, and greed in the economic crisis. He offers ideas to help those affected by the economic downturn.
Danny Schechter is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on Blog Talk Radio.
The show airs live on Thursday, February 12, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Multiple Emmy Award winning investigative journalist, and author of the important and eye opening book Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, Danny Schechter pulls no punches as he describes how and why the unfolding global economic crisis and subprime scandal took place. You will learn:
* The real causes of the subprime crisis
* Who was responsible for the unraveling debt crisis problem
* How and why the crisis spread to other parts of the economy
* The global effects of the current economic downturn
Danny Schechter (photo left) is a television producer and independent filmmaker who also writes and speaks about media issues. He is the editor of “MEDIAOCRACY: Hail to the Thief: How the Media Stole the 2000 Presidential Election” (electronpress.com) and author of “Falun Gong’s Challenge to China” (Akashic Press), “The More You Watch, The Less You Know” (Seven Stories Press) and “News Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics” (Akashic Press. Electron Press). He is the executive editor of Mediachannel.org, the world’s largest online media issues network.
Mr. Schechter has produced and directed many TV specials and films, including “Falun Gong’s Challenge to China” (2000); A Hero for All: Nelson Mandela’s Farewell (l999); Beyond Life: Timothy Leary Lives (1997); Sowing Seeds/Reeping Peace: The World of Seeds of Peace (1996); Prisoners of Hope (1995, co-directed by Barbara Kopple); Countdown to Freedom: Ten Days that Changed South Africa (1994), narrated by James Earl Jones and Alfre Woodard; Sarajevo Ground Zero (1993); The Living Canvas (1992), narrated by Billy Dee Williams; Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy (1992, co-directed by Barbara Kopple); Give Peace a Chance (1991); Mandela in America (1990) The Making of Sun City (1987); and Student Power (1968).
Mr. Schechter is co-founder and executive producer of Globalvision, a New York-based television and film production company now in its 13th year, where he produced 156 editions of the award-winning series South Africa Now, co-produced Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television with Charlayne Hunter-Gault. His most recent human rights production, “Globalization and Human Rights” was co produced with Rory O’Connor and shown nationally on PBS.
A Cornell University graduate, Mr. Schechter received his Master’s degree from the London School of Economics, and an honorary doctorate from Fitchburg College. He was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard, where he also taught in 1969. After college, he was a full-time civil rights worker and then communications director of the Northern Student Movement, worked as a community organizer in a Saul Alinsky-style War on Poverty program, and, moving from the streets to the suites, served as an assistant to the Mayor of Detroit in 1966 on a Ford Foundation grant.
Danny Schechter’s professional journalism career began in1970, when he was named news director, principal newscaster, and “News Dissector” at WBCN-FM in Boston, where he was hailed as a radio innovator and won many industry honors, including two Major Armstrong Awards. His television producing career was launched with the syndicated Joe Oteri Show, which won the New England Emmy and a NAPTE IRIS award in 1979. In l980, he created and produced the nation’s first live late-night entertainment-oriented TV show, Five All Night, Live All Night at WCVB in Boston.
Danny Schechter left Boston to join the staff at CNN as a producer based in Atlanta. He then moved to ABC as a producer for 20/20, where during his eight years he won two National News Emmys. Mr. Schechter has reported from 47 countries and lectured at many schools and universities. He was an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
Mr. Schechter’s writing has appeared in leading newspapers and magazines including the The Nation, Newsday, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, Media Studies Journal, Detroit Free Press, Village Voice, Tikkun, Z, and many others. He has a 24-year-old daughter, and lives in New York City in a large loft with an 8,000-album record collection and an Apple computer that is nearly out of memory.
My book review of Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal by Danny Schechter.
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Let's talk with multiple Emmy Award winning investigative journalist, media critic, and author of the important and eye opening book Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, Danny Schechter pulls no punches as he describes how and why the unfolding global economic crisis and subprime scandal took place. He covers the roles of debt, regulation, the regulators, and greed in the economic crisis. He offers ideas to help those affected by the economic downturn on Blog Business Success Radio.
