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Surveillance A-z

By Danny Schechter

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9781609806439 | Seven Stories Pr, August 30, 2016, cover price $16.95

When South Africa Called, We Answered: How the Media and International Solidarity Helped Topple Apartheid

Product Description: There were two battles against apartheid - a political campaign and a media war. The political story has been told, and now you can read about the media effort. As South Africa marks in 2014 its 20th anniversary as a democracy, its transformation is still hailed as a "miracle...read more

By Danny Schechter

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9781616409418 | Cosimo Inc, January 31, 2015, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: There were two battles against apartheid - a political campaign and a media war.

Madiba a to Z: The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela

Product Description: From the makers of the major motion pictureÂ Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, aÂ completely unique biography and thematic telling of the story of Nelson Mandela. Â This book, which provided key source material for the film, isÂ an unexpurgated collection of the views and opinions of South Africa's first Black president, and itÂ draws on Danny Schechterâs forty-year relationship with "Madiba," as Nelson Mandela is known in his native South Africa...read more

By Danny Schechter

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9781609805593 | Seven Stories Pr, November 26, 2013, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: From the makers of the major motion pictureÂ Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, aÂ completely unique biography and thematic telling of the story of Nelson Mandela.

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9781609805579 | Seven Stories Pr, November 26, 2013, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From the makers of the major motion pictureÂ Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, aÂ completely unique biography and thematic telling of the story of Nelson Mandela.

Blogothon: Reflections and Revelations from the News Dissector

Product Description: In just a decade, blogging changed from a fad to a phenomenon with an estimated 51 million participants, mostly creative citizens with something to say or express. Citizens who want to participate in media rather than be subjected to it...read more

By Danny Schechter

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9781616406691 | Cosimo Inc, May 30, 2012, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: In just a decade, blogging changed from a fad to a phenomenon with an estimated 51 million participants, mostly creative citizens with something to say or express.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: The Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States, Including Dissenting Views

Product Description: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government...read more

By Danny Schechter (foreword by)

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9781616405410, titled "The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: The Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States Including Dissenting Views" | Cosimo Inc, May 31, 2011, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.

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9781616405427 | Cosimo Inc, May 30, 2011, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.

The History of the Standard Oil Company: 2 Volumes in 1

By Danny Schechter (introduced by) and Ida M. Tarbell

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9781616403997 | Cosimo Inc, October 30, 2010, cover price $59.99

The History of the Standard Oil Company

Product Description: As modern-day muckraker Danny Schechter writes in his new introduction, exclusive to this Cosimo Classics edition: "In this era of financial crisis compounded, and even perhaps enabled, by a dearth of investigative reporting, it is valuable to go back in time to learn from the work of great journalists with the courage to have taken on avaricious corporations and irresponsible business practices...read more

By Danny Schechter (introduced by)

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9781605207612 | Cosimo Inc, August 31, 2009, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: "In this era of financial crisis compounded, and even perhaps enabled, by a dearth of investigative reporting, it is valuable to go back in time to learn from the work of great journalists with the courage to have taken on avaricious corporations and irresponsible business practices.

9781605207636 | Cosimo Inc, August 30, 2009, cover price $37.99 | About this edition: IDA MINERVA TARBELL (1857-1944) is remembered today as a muckraking journalist, thanks to this 1904 blockbuster exposÃ©.

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9781616403980 | Cosimo Inc, October 30, 2010, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: As modern-day muckraker Danny Schechter writes in his new introduction, exclusive to this Cosimo Classics edition: "In this era of financial crisis compounded, and even perhaps enabled, by a dearth of investigative reporting, it is valuable to go back in time to learn from the work of great journalists with the courage to have taken on avaricious corporations and irresponsible business practices.

9781605207605 | Cosimo Inc, August 31, 2009, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: "In this era of financial crisis compounded, and even perhaps enabled, by a dearth of investigative reporting, it is valuable to go back in time to learn from the work of great journalists with the courage to have taken on avaricious corporations and irresponsible business practices.

9781605207629 | Cosimo Inc, August 31, 2009, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: IDA MINERVA TARBELL (1857-1944) is remembered today as a muckraking journalist, thanks to this 1904 blockbuster exposÃ©.

Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal

Product Description: DANNY SCHECHTER, "The News Dissector" has spent decades as a truth teller in the media, with leading media companies and as an independent filmmaker with the award-winning independent company Globalvision. A graduate of Cornell and the London School of Economics, Schechter was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a multiple Emmy Award winner at ABC News, where he was among the first to cover the S&L crisis...read more

By Danny Schechter

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9781605203515 | Cosimo Inc, September 30, 2008, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: DANNY SCHECHTER, "The News Dissector" has spent decades as a truth teller in the media, with leading media companies and as an independent filmmaker with the award-winning independent company Globalvision.

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9781605203157, titled "Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal" | Cosimo Inc, September 30, 2008, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: DANNY SCHECHTER, "The News Dissector" has spent decades as a truth teller in the media, with leading media companies and as an independent filmmaker with the award-winning independent company Globalvision.

The War in Iraq And Why the Media Failed Us

By David Dadge and Danny Schechter

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9780275987664 | Praeger Pub Text, July 30, 2006, cover price $49.00

Killing the Messenger: Journalists at Risk in Modern Warfare

Product Description: Killing the Messenger reveals the dangerous new face of war and journalism. Covering armed conflicts has always been dangerous business, but in the past, press heroes like Ernie Pyle and Edward R. Murrow faced only the danger of random bullets or bombs...read more

By Herbert N. Foerstel and Danny Schechter (foreword by)

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9780275987862 | Praeger Pub Text, March 30, 2006, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Killing the Messenger reveals the dangerous new face of war and journalism.

When News Lies: Media Complicity And the Iraq War

Product Description: When News Lies is the untold story of media war behind Iraq; the American government's efforts to manipulate war coverage; and the media's own timidity and reluctance to do its job-report the news to the public.Veteran author, video journalist, and media critic, Danny Schechter, takes us on a sometimes frightening, sometimes humorous journey behind the scenes of the media machine that sold us Operation Iraqi Freedom...read more

By Danny Schechter

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9781590790731 | Pap/dvd edition (Select Books Inc, January 30, 2006), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: When News Lies is the untold story of media war behind Iraq; the American government's efforts to manipulate war coverage; and the media's own timidity and reluctance to do its job-report the news to the public.

Death of Media: And the Fight to Save Democracy

Product Description: Is the mainstream media dying, and what does that mean for democracy? Emmy Award-winning journalist Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," takes a close look at today's big media news outlets, the new media striving to replace them, and the impact it is all having on the health of our democracy...read more

By Danny Schechter

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9780976658368 | Melville Pub House, September 1, 2005, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Is the mainstream media dying, and what does that mean for democracy?

Las Noticias En Tiempos De Guerra

By Danny Schechter

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9788449316395, titled "Las noticias en tiempos de guerra / The News in Wartime" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, November 15, 2004, cover price $40.95

Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception : How the Media Failed to Cover the War on Iraq

Product Description: There were two wars going on in Iraqâone fought with armies of soldiers, bombs, and fearsome military force. The other was fought alongside it with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists, and propaganda techniques. One war was rationalized as an effort to find and disarm WMDsâWeapons of Mass Destruction; the other was carried out by even more powerful WMDs, Weapons of Mass Deception...read more

By Danny Schechter

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9781591021735 | Prometheus Books, October 1, 2003, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: There were two wars going on in Iraqâone fought with armies of soldiers, bombs, and fearsome military force.

Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror

Product Description: 'Limiting access, limiting information to cover the backsides of those who are in charge of the war, is extremely dangerous and cannot and should not be accepted. And I am sorry to say that, up to and including the moment of this interview, that overwhelmingly it has been accepted by the American people...read more

By Danny Schechter

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9780742531086 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, April 1, 2003, cover price $94.00 | About this edition: "Limiting access, limiting information to cover the backsides of those who are in charge of the war, is extremely dangerous and cannot and should not be accepted.

Paperback:

9780742531093 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, April 1, 2003, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: 'Limiting access, limiting information to cover the backsides of those who are in charge of the war, is extremely dangerous and cannot and should not be accepted.

Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice or Evil Cult?

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By Danny Schechter

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9781888451139, titled "Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice or "Evil Cult"?" | Akashic Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $24.00

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9781888451276 | Akashic Books, February 1, 2002, cover price $15.95

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

Product Description: "As 'News Dissector' on Boston radio, Danny Schechter literally educated a generation..."ÂNoam Chomsky"Danny Schechter, a kind of journalist without borders, has shaken up public broadcasting, among many other media institutions, in the course of his career as a self-styled 'News Dissector' and human rights advocate...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Danny Schechter

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9781888451207 | Akashic Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "As 'News Dissector' on Boston radio, Danny Schechter literally educated a generation.

The More You Watch, the Less You Know: News Wars/(Sub)Merged Hopes/Media Adventures

Offers an insider's view of how the media really works and why it does not work the way it should

By Danny Schechter

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9781888363401 | Seven Stories Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Offers an insider's view of how the media really works and why it does not work the way it should

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9781888363807, titled "The More You Watch, the Less You Know: News Wars/Submerged Hopes/Media Adventures" | Rev upd edition (Seven Stories Pr, December 1, 1998), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Offers an insider's view of how the media really works and why it does not work the way it should

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