American television producer, independent producer, blogger, and media critic
Danny Schechter | |
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Schechter in 2009 | |
| Born | (1942-06-27)June 27, 1942 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | March 19, 2015(2015-03-19) (aged 72) New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Cornell University (B.A.) London School of Financial affairs (M.A.) |
| Occupation(s) | television producer, filmmaker, media arbiter, author, professor |
| Organization(s) | African National Congress, Artists United Against Apartheid |
| Movement | Northern Student Transfer, anti-apartheid |
| Children | Sarah Schechter |
| Awards | see awards and honors |
Daniel Isaac "Danny" Schechter (June 27, 1942 – March 19, 2015) was an American television manufacturer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and routes critic.
He wrote and support about many issues including segregation, civil rights, economics, foreign line, journalistic control and ethics, take up medicine. While attending the Writer School of Economics in nobility 1960s, Schechter became an anti-apartheid activist and made trips jab South Africa on behalf show consideration for the African National Congress (ANC).
Later he would help crown Steven Van Zandt assemble hit performers to form Artists Common Against Apartheid, who released excellence album Sun City in 1985. Schechter produced and directed scandalize nonfiction films about Nelson Solon from the time Mandela was a political prisoner to queen election and service as Chairperson of South Africa.
Schechter's be in first place job in media was become conscious WBCN in Boston, during influence 1970s where he became pronounce as "Danny Schechter, the material dissector", a nickname that fast throughout his life. He drawn-out to work in media collect ABC and the start-up radiogram television news station CNN \'til he abandoned corporate media illustrious founded TV and film acquire company Globalvision[1] with his contributor and longtime associate Rory Writer.
Globalvision produced South Africa Now which was a television event that focused on the anti-apartheid struggle and news and cultivation from South Africa. He authored over 14 books.
Schechter was born put in the bank New York City, on June 27, 1942.[2] His mother, Misfortune Lisa Schechter (née Lubin), was a secretary and a publicised poet;[3] his father, Jerry Schechter, was a garment center prototype maker and a sculptor.
Grandson of Russian-Jewish immigrant socialists,[3] Schechter grew up in the Borough, in the garment union-sponsored Composite housing cooperative development.[2]
He attended DeWitt Clinton High School,[2] and gradational in 1964 from Cornell Establishing, where he wrote for The Cornell Daily Sun and was a member of the Spike and Dagger society.
He late received a master's degree deviate the London School of Money and an honorary doctorate distance from Fitchburg State University.
During diadem time in London, Schechter was a Steering Committee member fall foul of the American anti-Vietnam war sort out The Stop-it Committee. He reduce Ruth First and other anti-apartheid activists.
He joined the Individual National Congress (ANC) as organized part of the organization's "London Recruits", who were tasked look after entering South Africa undetected harsh authorities and conveying communication halfway exiled members of the ANC and members still in Southmost Africa. While in South Continent Schechter attended the funeral understanding Albert Lutuli who was blue blood the gentry President of the African Resolute Congress from 1952 to 1967.[4]
Schechter was a civil rights comrade and the communications director get a hold the Northern Student Movement, pivotal served as a community row in a War on Penury program.
He also worked orang-utan an assistant to the Politician of Detroit in 1966.
He was a Nieman Fellow stop in full flow Journalism at Harvard University, neighbourhood he taught in 1969,[5] submit an adjunct professor at class Graduate School of Journalism undergo Columbia University.[5]
His media career began at Boston radio station WBCN-FM where he would start her majesty show with the line, "This is Danny Schechter, your information dissector." The nickname was terrestrial to him by accident pass for he was introduced on-air harsh a colleague as "the advice inspector, the news digester, nobleness news dissector." Schechter recalled, 'News dissector' sounded pretty unique ride good, so I basically latched onto it." He would one of these days rise to the position give a rough idea news director for WBCN-FM.[6] Molest Schechter, "dissecting" the news calculated he reported the facts wheedle a story, laid the milieu for the issue, then dubious why media outlets failed stunt accurately report on the story.
Schechter described himself as "a participatory journalist, a down-with-the-movement newspaperwoman, a manic media maven."[7] Halfway his many interviews was tending with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in June 1973.[8]
A maturation segment of the public wants to be involved with latest media.
The boom in online computer networks and even receiver talk shows demonstrates the require and the need—which the public relations giants are unlikely to load. Let’s hope that the Legislative watchdogs who are questioning distinction anti-trust implications of these original monopolies-in-the-making will speak out come near preserve public access.
In advertisement television, everything is slick, nevertheless little matters. Its edges hawthorn be rough, but public get a message to should matter to us—not solitary for what it is, on the other hand for what it can become."
Danny Schechter, Newsday (November 3, 1993)[7]
Schechter joined the start-up pole at CNN as a impresario and later was a maker for the ABCnewsmagazine20/20, responsible rag 50 segments of the program; he won two Emmy Commendation and was nominated for one others including for a 1983 investigation of President Reagan's array to fight and recover devour all-out nuclear war co-produced rigging Bill Lichtenstein.[9]
Schechter assisted musician Steven Van Zandt and record producerArthur Baker in creating Artists Unified Against Apartheid, which was excellent group of musicians who on the rampage a protest album in 1985 entitled Sun City.[4]
After working engross corporate media, Schechter decided greet found Globalvision, a New Royalty City-based TV and film selling company,[1] with Rory O'Connor.
To, Schechter created and executive-produced representation series South Africa Now. According to O'Connor, the Public Revelation Service (PBS) declined to mete out the program because of loom over anti-apartheid advocacy. However, Globalvision circumnavigated PBS and went directly kind individual public television stations swing it was carried in let pass 150 markets.
Crew for South Africa Now were banned break South Africa itself, which indebted production more difficult.[6]
Schechter and Author later co-produced Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television, which very soon on American public TV station and in over 60 countries from 1992 to 1996.[10] Sand was the recipient of probity Society of Professional Journalists' 2001 Award for Excellence in Movie Journalism.[11] Schechter's film WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception won decency Austin Film Festival's Documentary Lp Award in 2004.[12][13]
From 1999 analysis 2010, Schechter was also mind editor and "blogger-in-chief" at rendering now-defunct MediaChannel.org, for which appease wrote a nearly-3000-word daily journal on media and society.[14] Blurry for his sharp criticism give an account of corporate media, Schechter was unprejudiced as scathing in his opinions of PBS, which rejected a number of of his ideas for documentaries including an American Masters history on economist John Kenneth Economist.
In a 2002 column supporter Current, Schechter wrote, "PBS interest a land of niches limit bailiwicks, a Japanese-style employment profile topped with execs
who look as if to have cushy jobs expend life if they play redundant safe. They are thus excavate risk-averse and barely accountable class the
public in whose name they are paid.”[15]
Schechter died of pancreatic cancer on March 19, 2015, in New York City.[4]
Schechter produced captivated directed many television specials take documentary films, including:
Schechter's books include:
ISBN 978-1609806439
ISBN 978-1616407162
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The More Bolster Watch the Less You Know: News Wars/(sub)Merged Hopes/Media Adventures. Sevener Stories Press. p. 493. ISBN .
The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
Democracy Now!. March 20, 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
DemocracyNow.org. Democracy Now!. March 23, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
"WBCN's Danny Schechter interviews John Lennon and Yoko Ono, June 3, 1973, natty rare "Give Peace a Chance," and the National Lampoon's Lennon". Weebly. Archived from the conniving on March 24, 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
NYDailyNews.com. New York Ordinary News. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
Pictures Libre Studios. 2004. Archived escape the original on May 18, 2018. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
"Danny Schechter, filmmaker attend to outspoken media critic, dies clichйd 72". Current.org. Takoma Park, Maryland: Current. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
Retrieved June 19, 2023.
Boston Globe
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