Danny Schechter, Emmy-Winning Conscience Of Human-Rights Journalism, Dies At 72 by Jeremy Gerard

Danny Schechter, an unabashed advocacy journalist and media critic who moved in and out of mainstream television and wore his legend as “Danny Schechter, the News Dissector” like an escutcheon, died on March 19 of pancreatic cancer  in Manhattan, the New York Times reports. The phrase dated from his early work in the 1970s as a pundit on WBCN, a Boston prog-rock radio station where his sign-of…

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