Remember Danny Schecter, "the news dissector" from 'BCN?

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WMD/OPPORTUNITY TO MEET EMMY WINNING JOURNALIST

The Newbury DTC has a unique opportunity coming up on September 18.
You have the opportunity to see a fine documentary and meet an award
winning journalist.

WMD, Weapons of Mass Deception, is an award-winning documentary by
journalist/filmmaker Danny Schechter. The film, which won Best
Documentary at both the Denver and Austin Film Festivals in 2004,
depicts a media guilty of selling the Iraq war instead of telling the
truth, by adopting a patriotic correctness and a uniformity of
perspective that is undermining democracy in America.

Schechter, known to area natives as WBCN's news dissector, was a
producer at CNN before moving to ABC News' 20/20, where he produced 50
segments for ABC and won two national Emmys. A Cornell University
graduate, he received his Master's degree from the London School of
Economics, and an honorary doctorate from Fitchburg College. He was a
Neiman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard and an adjunct professor at the
Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Schechter's
writing has appeared in leading newspapers and magazines including the
The Nation, Newsday, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, Media
Studies Journal, Detroit Free Press, Village Voice, Tikkun, Z, and many others.