Wednesday 3rd May
*YOU ARE INVITED TO MARK WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY
(Please pass this on to interested friends and colleagues)
*
MEDIA CHANNEL/EUROPE & GLORIA
(In Association with Britain's Campaign for Broadcasting and Press Freedom)
invite you to mark World Press Freedom Day By Meeting Our Number One American Friend:
Danny Schechter: "The News Dissector"
in London at 6PM ON WEDNESDAY 3RD MAY at:
Gloria Books
1 Greenland Place
Across From the Camden Town Tube (Northern Line)
London
NW1 0AP
Danny is here to talk and to support the DVD launch of "WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception", his award-winning film on the media context of the war in Iraq.
He is Editor of Mediachannel.org, the media issues website and author of "When News Lies: Media Complicity and the Iraq War" (Select Books) and The Death of Media (and the fight to save Democracy"(Melville House Manifestos).
Buy them now at:
Http://www.newsdissector.org/store.htm
"Do come. He is a rare and important figure in global and US media. What he has to say is always pertinent, incisive and often funny, usually because it's painfully true." Ovais Naqvi, Publisher, Gloria Books
Read About Mediachannel's new European Initiative
From the World Association of Newspapers Editor's Weblog (Paris)
http://www.editorsweblog.org/print_newspapers//2006/04/mediachannelorg_to_launch_european_initi.php
Danny Schechter is a television producer and independent filmmaker who often writes and speaks about media issues. He is the executive editor and blogger-in-chief of Mediachannel.org; the world’s largest online media issues network. Schechter is co-founder and executive producer of Globalvision, a New York-based television and film production company now in its 18th year.
Contact: Danny@mediachannel.org
The website for the film:www.wmdthefilm.com
Here is a detailed review of Danny’s film with photos:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/303974.html?c=on#c109084