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

by Schechter, Danny; Browne, Jackson; McChesney, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781888363807
• ISBN10: 1888363800
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-04
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

The More You Watch, The Less You Know is an insider's explanation of how the media really works, and an impassioned plea for freedom of the (electronic) press. In its hardcover edition, this book become a flashpoint in the very debate it describes.

Author Biography

Formerly a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard, DANNY SCHECHTER made waves in the mainstream and alternative media for more than 30 years. Called the "alternative Walter Cronkite," he witnessed and participated in the history-making events of our age, from the founding of the Yippies in 1967, to Nelson Mandela's triumphant presidential election in 1994, for which Schechter was designated the exclusive filmmaker, to the Media and Democracy Congress of 1996, which he helped organize, to his most recent television production, Rights & Wrongs, which aired weekly on over 150 PBS and cable outlets nationwide. His many TV specials and films include Beyond Life: Timothy Leary Lives (1997), Countdown to Freedom: Ten Days that Changed South Africa (1994), narrated by James Earl Jones and Alfre Woodard, Sarajevo Ground Zero (1993), Mandela in America (1990), and The Making of Sun City (1990). For eight years a producer at ABC's 20/20, where he won two National News Emmys, Schechter reported from 45 countries and lectured at many schools and universities. He was co-founder and executive producer at Globalvision, a New York-based television and film company where he produced the award-winning series South Africa Now and co-produced Right & Wrongs: Human Rights Television with Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Schechter passed away in 2015.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Foreword	p. 15
Foreword	p. 19
Introduction: The Many Fronts of the Media War	p. 25
News Dissecting: Inside the Rock Radio Revolution	p. 85
Elevating Journalism (through Harvard Yard)	p. 111
Going Local: Breaking into the Business and Being Broken by It	p. 121
CNN: The World's Most (Self) Important Network	p. 141
20/20: We're in Touch So You Be in Touch	p. 163
The Control Room	p. 185
Defecting: Becoming a Network Refugee	p. 199
Globalvision: Downwardly Mobile and Upwardly Global	p. 215
Passion and Discovery: That Was Then	p. 251
On the Island	p. 305
Contradictions, Contradictions: This Is Now	p. 319
Media Worlds in Collision	p. 333
I, Rupert	p. 353
The Mergers of July and the End of Journalism	p. 373
What We Can Do	p. 445
The Media Channel	p. 463
Selected Media Reform Groups	p. 469
Filmography	p. 471
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