Schechter was an innovator and an insightful media critic, in addition to being a talented journalist and documentary filmmaker.
He passed in March of 2015
Please enjoy this 2012 interview with Danny.
RIP Mediachannel.org Founder Danny Schechter
Category Archives: Media Workers
labor issues and working conditions, censorship and citizen journalism
62 Public Interest Groups Demand Answers on AP Seizures
More than 60 civil liberties, digital rights, press freedom and public interest groups (including Media Alliance) sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding a full, transparent account of the Justice Department’s targeting of journalists and whistleblowers. Continue reading 62 Public Interest Groups Demand Answers on AP Seizures
CA Corrections Department Proposes New Sweeping Prison Censorship Rules
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has proposed new sweeping censorship rules for information going into and out of California prisons
Public comment remains open, years after the call. Use this tool to send a note with your objection to the vague and over-reaching regulations, which characterize all political materials as “oppositional to society and authority”.
Continue reading CA Corrections Department Proposes New Sweeping Prison Censorship Rules
MA Supports the Speak Free Act
The Speak Free Act is a federal anti-SLAPP bill introduced in the House of Representatives on a bipartisan basis by Reps Anna Eshoo and Texas Republican Blake Farenthold.
SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation and describe lawsuits filed primarily to discourage, harass and intimidate public participation and free speech.
Anti-SLAPP laws provide a way for those targeted via SLAPP suits get the suits dismissed fairly rapidly and avoid being drained by long and resource-consuming lawsuits designed not to prevail on the merits, but to exhaust the target into silencing themselves to get out from under the lawsuit.
Continue reading MA Supports the Speak Free Act
New Lethal Injection Regulations from CDCR
MA commented on CDCR’s proposed lethal injection regulations, specifically on access for journalists and witnesses to executions. Continue reading New Lethal Injection Regulations from CDCR
Last Words
The eloquent last words of the assassinated Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga.
55 Organizations Support The Re-Introduction of The Private Prison Information Act
U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) reintroduced the Private Prison Information Act (PPIA) in Congress. The bill, HR 5838, requires non-federal correctional and detention facilities that house federal prisoners to comply with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), by making certain records available to the public.
Media Alliance is proud to join the Human Rights Defense Center and 54 other organizations to support PPIA, HR 5838, which requires private prisons and detention centers to comply with FOIA. Continue reading 55 Organizations Support The Re-Introduction of The Private Prison Information Act
Bay Guardian Shut Down
The San Francisco Media Company suddenly and with no notice shut down the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the city by the Bay’s alternative newspaper for decades.
The decision was supposedly based on the failure of the Guardian to achieve financial viability in a difficult market for print media, but appeared to abruptly cut short a revitalization effort underway before it even had much of a chance to get going. Continue reading Bay Guardian Shut Down