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How was the 2000 US presidential election decided in Florida?
Journalist and producer Danny Schechter will show his latest
documentary film "Counting on Democracy," about the role played by
the news media on Election Day and in the recounts that followed.
(He will also discuss the peculiar behavior of US and Venezuelan
news media during the recent coup in Caracas.)
Danny Schechter is founder and executive editor of MediaChannel.org
a founder and Vice President/Executive Producer of Globalvision,
Inc., an award-winning media company formed in l987. Mr. Schechter
has been a broadcast and print journalist and is an
internationally recognized speaker and writer on media issues. Mr.
Schechter was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University
and his work has been honored with, among other recognitions, Emmy
awards, the IRIS award, the George Polk Award, the Major Armstrong
Award, and honors from the National Association of Black
Journalists. Mr. Schechter was the news director and principal
newscaster for WBCN-FM, an on-air reporter for WGBH, and a news
program producer and investigative reporter at CNN and ABC. Mr.
Schechter's print journalism has included serving as the London
editor for Ramparts magazine; his articles have appeared in
Newsday, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, Detroit Free
Press, Village Voice, Media Studies Journal, and Z Magazine, among
others. Mr. Schechter is the author of "The More You Watch, The
Less You Know" (Seven Stories Press) and "News Dissector:
Passions, Pieces, and Polemics" (Electron Press).
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