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Welcome to another edition of the WILL-AM Media Matters email update!

THIS WEEK'S GUEST
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This week our guest is Danny Schechter. The founder and executive
editor of MediaChannel.org, Danny is a television producer,
independent filmmaker and media critic. He is the author of numerous
books, including "The More You Watch, The Less You Know" and
"Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception: How the Media Failed to Cover
the War on Iraq." He is the co-founder and executive producer of
Globalvision, a New York-based television and film production
company. Previously, Schechter was a civil rights activist, an
assistant mayor of Detroit, a producer for CNN and a producer for
ABC’s 20/20 where he won two National News Emmys. His writing has
appeared in leading newspapers and journals including The Nation,
Newsday, Columbia Journalism Review, Village Voice, and many others.
Recently, Schechter has come out with a new documentary on media and
the war in Iraq, "Weapons of Mass Deception." Most recently he has
been in the UK covering events around the meeting of the G8.
http://www.wmdthefilm.com/
http://www.mediachannel.org/