The News Dissector: Recent Episodes
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Progressiveradionetwork.com presents "The News Dissector" with Veteran Radio Personality Danny Schechter, offers an engaging counter-narrative to the news we need to know.
ISIS AND THE NEW WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST: HOW IS IT BEING COVERED - Dr Abbas Khadim, a prominent scholar from Berkley and John Hopkins. Then, War Deepens in Nigeria - with Omoyele Sowore.
Today, we welcome Lisa Vives, Editor or Global Information Network Compiles and publishes Africa News Bulletin based on African Sources--talk about coverage of Ebola.
First Guest is Anya Stigliz. We will be discussing her new book on Investigative Reporting. Second Guest Robert Parry, who is the at Editor Consortium News. We will speak on Ukraine and also have a discussion of Press Coverage as NATO meets in S Wales.
First guest is Bryson Hull, Managing Editor of the Who What Where website Author of new piece critiquing media role in beheading of US freelancer in Syria. Second guest is musician Nenad Bach on Musicians as journalists---A new movie about him premiered last night and showed him as a human rights musician using music to alert audiences to social issues and media concerns.
First guest, Eric Tait Jr, veteran ABC producer, active member of National Association of Black Journalist with media analysis show on Manhattan Cable. Second guest Ed Rampell, progressive film historian, critic and Hollywood-based Commentator on coverage of Deaths of Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall.
First guest is Lauren Lyster of Hot Stock Minute & Yahoo Finance. Second guest is Gregory Wilpert; who is a German-American sociologist (Ph.D. Brandeis University) and currently work as Director of the website of Telesur English, a pan-American television channel that was founded by President Chavez of Venezuela in 2005. The English website just launched on July 24 of this year. Telesur English has its headquarters in Quito, Ecuador, where I am now based. Previously to this job I worked as a freelance writer in New York City and taught political science as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College's Graduate Center for Worker Education. In 2003 I founded (with others) the website www.venezuelanalysis.com, a site that provides regular news and analysis on Venezuelan society and politics. My most recent book is Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The Policies of the Chavez Government (Verso Books, 2007).
Interview with Jim Naurekas, media Analyst of FAIR--Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Also my second guest interview will be Professor Michel Chossudovsky.
Will be speaking with guest Ali Abunimah, editor of Electronic Intifada. Also we will be joined by journalist Max Blumenthal who has reported widely on political repression in Israel.
Dahr Jamail, former independent journalist in Iraq and then with Al Jazeera. Now focused on reporting on Climate change.
The preeminent media monitor Andrew Tyndall, editor of the Tyndall Report that monitors network news in an authoritative way and has done so for decades.
Will be discussing the topics of war and the media with guests David Swanson & Pedro Escobar.
Gareth Porter (born June 18, 1942) is an American historian, investigative journalist, author and policy analyst specializing in U.S. national security policy. He was active as a Vietnam specialist and anti-war activist during the Vietnam War, serving as Saigon Bureau Chief for Dispatch News Service International from 1970-1971, and later, as co-director of the Indochina Resource Center. He has written several books about the potential for peaceful conflict resolution in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, including his 2005 book Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam, an analysis of how and why the United States went to war in Vietnam. Porter's analysis and reporting has appeared in academic journals, news publications and periodicals for four decades, and in 2012 he was the winner of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, which is awarded annually by the Frontline Club in London to acknowledge reporting that exposes propaganda.
Will be interviewing guest Paul Jay, Editor of The Real News Network on his creed in journalism and the future of TRNN.
Interviewed guests David Carr of the New York Times and Margaret Kimberley of the Black Agenda Report about mainstream media coverage and on what is going on in Nigeria.
An interview about Net Neutrality with the Free Press Senior Director of Strategy "Tim Karr.
Will be interviewing guest Marwan Bishara of Al Jazeera. Topics such Al Jazeera's media approach and the overall media will be discussed.