Cultural Writing. Media Studies. Includes Schechter's writing on politics, human rights and the media spanning four decades of activism and reporting: from Vietnam and South Africa to the American civil rights movement and the hazards of the global corporate media. An important book by one of the few working journalists to emerge from the alternative media of the 60s and 70s with his politics and principals intact. Danny Schechter is an Emmy Award-winning human rights journalist, and author of FALUN GONG'S CHALLENGE TO CHINA (also available from SPD). He is the executive producer of Globalvision and executive editor of Mediachannel.org.